Not to pick on Winicki...

[MichaelWinicki]

No, it wasn't a jailhouse break. The blitz were selective and came from everywhere. Sometimes it was up the middle, sometimes from the left and sometimes from the right.

The key was that we weren't predictable as we have been too often this season. Ware blitzed, which was predictable. But so did Carpenter, James and Newman.

We managed to keep Manning off balance because he often guessed wrong where we were coming from and as a result their protection broke down. And even when we didn't blitz, we got pressure.

Manning will kill you on all-out jailbreaks because they are difficult to disguise. But a varied, selective blitz package can be successful against Peyton Manning because they can be disguised.

And once you get to him early, even Manning will get rattled. And that's what happened at times yesterday.

Well said.

We had folks on this board that wanted the "jail-break" every down and several (including I) said that we would get killed with big plays. But the "blitz" was selectively used and worked well.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Maybe HH has one of those older televisions where you get the shadow things.

LOL!

I think he needed to adjust his "fine-tuning" knob. He was getting some carry-over from PBS.

 

[Hostile]

Well said.

We had folks on this board that wanted the "jail-break" every down and several (including I) said that we would get killed with big plays. But the "blitz" was selectively used and worked well.

Fish...

Barrell...

Ballistics test pending...

 

[smarta5150]

Our d-line got a better looking rush because that is how you beat the Colts.

Our game plan was changed to do this. BP and Zimmer said go get Manning.

You could tell it changed because the Colts had a "decent" run game, more so than some other teams we have faced.

We switched more to pass defense than rush defense. Its tough to be 100% balance and stop both the run and pass like mostly everyone here wants.

The bottom line is this. Our 3-4 d-line are doing an exceptional job. They stop the run against teams that like to run (minus the Tikis). Then yesterday they show they can get after the QB on teams that rely on the pass.

I told you so. Say it uncle.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Our d-line got a better looking rush because that is how you beat the Colts.

Our game plan was changed to do this. BP and Zimmer said go get Manning.

You could tell it changed because the Colts had a "decent" run game, more so than some other teams we have faced.

We switched more to pass defense than rush defense. Its tough to be 100% balance and stop both the run and pass like mostly everyone here wants.

The bottom line is this. Our 3-4 d-line are doing an exceptional job. They stop the run against teams that like to run (minus the Tikis). Then yesterday they show they can get after the QB on teams that rely on the pass.

I told you so. Say it uncle.

Just amuse me.

Let's make sure they can continue doing that before you enter into "chest-thump" mode.

 

[smarta5150]

Just amuse me.

Let's make sure they can continue doing that before you enter into "chest-thump" mode.

ok ok UNCLE!

 

[MichaelWinicki]

ok ok UNCLE!

:laugh2:

 

[DipChit]

Well we did have a good pass rush by our standards. Whether it was scheme, guys getting after it or the fact that the Colts are known to struggle against a 3-4.

But that said, there was plenty of plays where Manning had more than enough time and thats why I really have to give credit to our cover guys.. LB's and DB's.

We've seen them get torched far too often and that flat didnt happen yesterday.

 

[burmafrd]

The D line got pressure. The LB's got pressure. Even got some from a couple of CB blitzes. The book on Manning is you HAVE to hit him early and get him thinking about pressure and we did. And our secondary only had that one mix up that cost us a TD. Other then that we made no mistakes back there. Its also clear that BP decided that he was going to make the COlts beat us with the run- and gambled that they were not good enough to do so. And he was right.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

I think our D line out weighing their O line by several pounds might have helped out a bit. Aren't the Colts O line built for speed?

 

[The30YardSlant]

I didn't see a "jailhouse-break" blitz on every down.

Nor did I, and the point of the post was not to suggest anything of the sort. The point was, you claimed Buffalo's strategy was the key to beating the Colts: Keep your safeties 15 yards off the line in a deep cover 2 all day, only rush your down linemen, and force the Colts to nickle and dime you. Clearly, Dallas blitzed more than they have all year. You can either believe this was coincidence or a specific strategy to target Manning and disrupt his rythem because our coaches recognized that dropping back into coverage all day wont get it don't. We brought, minimum, 5 pass rushers on nearly every passing down save the Colts last posession in the 4th in which we did drop into more of a safe, deep zone defense. In the 3-4, blitzing 2 LBs against the Colts is not something most teams are willing to do. We brought as many as 8but rarely less than 5, and had Williams in the box often throughout the day.

Our gameplan was not even comparable to that of the Bills the previous week or the Titans several weeks earlier, teams you claimed we should model our gameplan after.

The defensive line showed some consistent pass rush.

No arguements there

 

[The30YardSlant]

Well said.

We had folks on this board that wanted the "jail-break" every down and several (including I) said that we would get killed with big plays. But the "blitz" was selectively used and worked well.

You cannot go from claiming we should sit in a zone all day to after the fact claiming we were in the right to blitz quite often and not be considered hypocritical.

 

[The30YardSlant]

I don't know what the heck game HH was watching... supposedly we rushed 9 on every down.

My head would literally explode if you somehow managed to defy time and space and find so much as one sentence in this thread that contained me claiming we rushed 9 men every down.

Did I say rushing 8 men early and often would be a good idea in my opinion in earlier threads? Yes. Did I claim we did it? No

 

[The30YardSlant]

Fish...

Barrell...

Ballistics test pending...

I'm innocent I tell ya

 

[Juke99]

You cannot go from claiming we should sit in a zone all day to after the fact claiming we were in the right to blitz quite often and not be considered hypocritical.

He's a hypocritical bastid. Always has been.

And he has poor hygeine too.

 

[kTXe]

We brought, minimum, 5 pass rushers on nearly every passing down save the Colts last posession in the 4th in which we did drop into more of a safe, deep zone defense.

Um, no.

 

[The30YardSlant]

He's a hypocritical bastid. Always has been.

And he has poor hygeine too.

You've never gone a week or two without proper bodily upkeep?

Yankee wussy

 

[The30YardSlant]

Um, no.

Um, yes? :blind:

 

[Juke99]

You've never gone a week or two without proper bodily upkeep?

Yankee wussy

Problem is that at the end of those two weeks, he uses that powder stuff that is used on Cocker Spaniels.

And did I mention how he's a hypocrite?

 

[The30YardSlant]

Problem is that at the end of those two weeks, he uses that powder stuff that is used on Cocker Spaniels.

Sweet Jesus