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Yes, I purposely titled the thread with that question, but not as-if to be taunting the other similar thread... rather to develop more of a conversation around how to proactively and directly neutralize the advantage that PHI enjoys.
We've had more than enough conversation around here over the months about how defenses ought to defend it, and/or how the league ought to reconsider the rules.
But while we all would celebrate that defensive coordinator who finally solved the puzzle, designing and executing consistently the perfect way to defend against it... for now, we can only conclude that it's highly unlikely.
Is all hope lost, though? No. Because virtually everyone acknowledges that the "magic" of the play is in the technique so much more so than that the PHI linemen are so very uniquely talented to run it. I dare say, there may even be more talented players across the league, but they just don't play on teams that have given the play the same emphasis.
And I dare say that our linemen might be among those. But it does take time and commitment and practice... and time is limited by nature of the CBA... McCarthy has to consider the opportunity cost of investing the necessary time... and what plays don't get practiced so that a Cowboys tush push does.
It's a worthy conversation, though, when the outcomes of high leverage regular season games and of post season games so routinely pivot on just a few downs' success or failure.
We've had more than enough conversation around here over the months about how defenses ought to defend it, and/or how the league ought to reconsider the rules.
But while we all would celebrate that defensive coordinator who finally solved the puzzle, designing and executing consistently the perfect way to defend against it... for now, we can only conclude that it's highly unlikely.
Is all hope lost, though? No. Because virtually everyone acknowledges that the "magic" of the play is in the technique so much more so than that the PHI linemen are so very uniquely talented to run it. I dare say, there may even be more talented players across the league, but they just don't play on teams that have given the play the same emphasis.
And I dare say that our linemen might be among those. But it does take time and commitment and practice... and time is limited by nature of the CBA... McCarthy has to consider the opportunity cost of investing the necessary time... and what plays don't get practiced so that a Cowboys tush push does.
It's a worthy conversation, though, when the outcomes of high leverage regular season games and of post season games so routinely pivot on just a few downs' success or failure.
