HoofHearted

Naked Bootlegs have been the go-to down there all season as well as in down and short situations all year long.

Milano made a bunch of business decisions as well taking on those pullers when they ran Counter.

If that's the measurement for success then I guess Tre White isn't a very good player either since he only had 1 INT last year. Try to look past the stats and see the actual impact he has on how a game is being played/called by our opponents.

Nobody does when it comes to run defense - that's the thing most fans don't understand. Every player is responsible for a specific gap pre-snap. Based on what their post-snap read is that gap can change, but without 11 guys doing what they're suppose to be doing big plays don't happen. I think that's what gets lost here. Everyone thinks its "see ball get ball" when that couldn't be further from the truth. Also keep in mind we hardly ever blitz him whereas you see more negative plays from backers on teams like the ravens or steelers because they send those guys more frequently.

In run defense just okay. None of the big runs were his fault. Did see him getting off blocks that two years ago he would have just been swallowed up by, but at other times he got squared up and stalemated. In coverage he looked his normal self - his presence forces the ball to the sidelines a lot. EDIT: His tackling wasn't very good this game overall. Pad level way too high. Bernard won't hold up inside. Milano is really bad when he's forced to spill blocks. It's just not their game.

Every LB looks great vs the run with a dominant DL. That's why teams invest so much money in them. Finding a LB who can fit the run as well as Edmunds isn't the issue, it's finding a guy who can do what Edmunds does in coverage that will be hard to replace. I'm with you though, I dunno how they'll be able to afford to keep him. Outside of Von - none of our guys are good enough right now to go into a play with a pass rush mindset regardless of what their read tells them to do. It shouldn't be allowed. Read your key and react accordingly.

Packers game planned around him and the interior defensive line. When they ran counter they free released their offensive tackle directly to Edmunds. Without our defensive ends getting hands on those tackles and not allowing them to immediately work second level Edmunds had no shot. Which forced him to fit underneath that block and Taron to wrap over top. Milano and Taron both looked slow all night in their fits vs gap scheme concepts. The outside zone game they were free releasing their center up to Edmunds and they just reached our big interior DL with ease. Forced our corners to make tackles on those big backs.

It would certainly be a loss. He's without a doubt a top 10 player at his position in the league. Our DL looked like DL's of past years against the Packers - defensive ends not getting hands on tackles and defensive tackles not getting hands on guards and centers. There were free releases from OL up to the second level all night long when they were running GH Counter and Outside Zone. The defensive line play wasn't good and Taron got fooled a couple of times with eye candy on misdirection out of the backfield.

As an inside backer in a 4-3 box (which is what we were in most of the night) you are a spill player. Essentially you're job is to fit the open gap as tight as you can to force the ball to "spill" outside to our unblocked defenders.

I guess I just don't understand how you can say he "seemed to be in the wrong spot a lot of the times" when you don't know where he was suppose to be.

"I saw a guy picking the wrong gaps all game" sounds more like a statement of fact than opinion to me. Anyway, didn't mean to pick at you specifically. This just seems to be a common theme around here. People making blanket statements without the ability to back them up and then they deflect once they are questioned about those statements.

If you know football you can get a pretty clear picture of what a players responsibility is based on alignments and post-snap movements. This isn't a "you" problem. It's just amusing to me how much statements like "we constantly fit the wrong gaps" gets thrown around here by people who have zero understanding of scheme or, more specifically, how run fits work.

My apologies. I thought since you were throwing around statements as if they were fact that you'd be able to back them up. That's my mistake.

Oh, I meant I'd like to see you provide that breakdown.

Would love to see a breakdown of his play including specifics about the defensive fits in general, his specific reads and fits, and diagrams showing what he was suppose to do versus what he actually did.

Please explain in detail how taking Taron off for a Linebacker would have helped us fit the run better.

Was Edelman a slot?

Referring to Cover 3 Insert. Rolling the Safety down into the box to replace an inside backer rather than rolling down outside over #2 to replace an outside backer.

Do you have a link to the interview? I'd need a little more context in order to know what exactly he was talking about.

Love hooves and hearts.

I'll have a better answer for you after I start breaking it down in a few weeks.

There's a read element on RPO's but the mesh shouldn't look any different than non-RPO's out of gun. I can guarantee you the run game is a staple of practice every day. I have never been around an OC that doesn't spend at least 20 minutes on mesh and run polish every day. Then you get some type of inside run work in a team setting on top of that.

Ault's mindset for running was a downhill style of run game. It took him and his staff at Nevada quite some time to figure out ideal depths for the QB and RB when they first started messing around with the Pistol because it threw the timing off of all their run concepts. Ultimately though it came down to timing over everything as to whether or not a concept was able to be successful or not.

I wouldn't say this is inherently true either. A lot of what makes run games effective is timing, not the rate at which the RB is moving forward when he gets the handoff. Additionally, outside of some type of draw, there shouldn't ever be a time where a RB isn't moving when receiving a ball in any concept.

Yeah, that's just simply not true.