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I think we match up well with Det. They are scoring 20 ppg and allowing 17 ppg the latter being very good. We are scoring 29.2 ppg and allowing 22. More importantly we are scoring over 40 ppg lately which is incredible. We are #3 in Sc% but lately it's been drive score. Defensively we are 22nd in Sc% but we are 15th in points allowed. Our last four games we've allowed 28, 27, 7, and 17 with some of those with the coming against our non-starters and in prevent defense with the game well at hand.
Someone mentioned Cover 3 in another thread. Cover three generally plays the CBs with outside leverage. It's weak against the short pass, wheel routes, sprint outs etc and gives up holes over the LBers and in front of the deep DBs esp between the hash marks. Cover 4 not much difference.
I think you'll see a lot of SPs and hybrids with a lot of disguise presnap. We should be playing a 4-1-6 probably with Carter in the middle LB role and 4-2-5 Nickel with Carter and Hitch if he can roll. We'll play 3-2-6 as well as 7 DBs at times. We could also play a 3 stack if they start using Bush a lot. We should play some Cover One if they're ok with Wilcox deep. This and the Big Nickel could be our base packages.
You've got to account for Megatron as well as Bush. If you drop your coverage too deep too fast then they will get Bush involved underneath. You can't allow Megatron to get behind you though.
They'll likely throw some man free, combo man, man under etc in there as well as some mixed man/zone coverage. I'd roll coverage from Cover 1 and SPs at times to cover Megatron, drop the ends some, and disguise some coverages with a 9 man free. Carr may play man free with two deep.
Bell is their primary rusher but they are only averaging about 88 ypg. They average 3.6 ypc. They have allowed only 3.2 ypa. But I think we can run on them although running inside will be tougher than usual. I still think we can push Suh out of the run lane and allow him some upfield rush and either trap him or quick hit run to daylight.
The biggest keys to the game is pass defense differential, putting pressure on Stafford who can rattle easily, and stopping Johnson and Bush.
So basically they will show a lot of looks and schemes although I don't expect them to play all the schemes above. They'll find a defense with strengths towards what Det is currently doing and go with it. I think they can stop Bell reasonably well. That leaves Tate, Johnson and Bush as primary targets to stop. Tate has more targets but Johnson missed games 6-9 or 4 games. Johnson is still nursing an ankle injury. He was held out of practice today. Bell, BTW, has an achilles problem.
Some of you guys can add some stats and insight to this. I'm particularly interested in what you think our coverage shells will be base and passing downs.
Someone mentioned Cover 3 in another thread. Cover three generally plays the CBs with outside leverage. It's weak against the short pass, wheel routes, sprint outs etc and gives up holes over the LBers and in front of the deep DBs esp between the hash marks. Cover 4 not much difference.
I think you'll see a lot of SPs and hybrids with a lot of disguise presnap. We should be playing a 4-1-6 probably with Carter in the middle LB role and 4-2-5 Nickel with Carter and Hitch if he can roll. We'll play 3-2-6 as well as 7 DBs at times. We could also play a 3 stack if they start using Bush a lot. We should play some Cover One if they're ok with Wilcox deep. This and the Big Nickel could be our base packages.
You've got to account for Megatron as well as Bush. If you drop your coverage too deep too fast then they will get Bush involved underneath. You can't allow Megatron to get behind you though.
They'll likely throw some man free, combo man, man under etc in there as well as some mixed man/zone coverage. I'd roll coverage from Cover 1 and SPs at times to cover Megatron, drop the ends some, and disguise some coverages with a 9 man free. Carr may play man free with two deep.
Bell is their primary rusher but they are only averaging about 88 ypg. They average 3.6 ypc. They have allowed only 3.2 ypa. But I think we can run on them although running inside will be tougher than usual. I still think we can push Suh out of the run lane and allow him some upfield rush and either trap him or quick hit run to daylight.
The biggest keys to the game is pass defense differential, putting pressure on Stafford who can rattle easily, and stopping Johnson and Bush.
So basically they will show a lot of looks and schemes although I don't expect them to play all the schemes above. They'll find a defense with strengths towards what Det is currently doing and go with it. I think they can stop Bell reasonably well. That leaves Tate, Johnson and Bush as primary targets to stop. Tate has more targets but Johnson missed games 6-9 or 4 games. Johnson is still nursing an ankle injury. He was held out of practice today. Bell, BTW, has an achilles problem.
Some of you guys can add some stats and insight to this. I'm particularly interested in what you think our coverage shells will be base and passing downs.
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