Yobwocs
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I can't see how we won't generate any pressure on San Francisco.
Everyone says Tampa is awful, but their pass protection obviously isn't. We didn't get many sacks on Brady, but we forced him to get rid of the ball early a lot, and forced him well short of the sticks a bunch of times - he had to move on every 2nd play. If we duplicate that same effort on the 49ers, it's gonna be hard to beat us. Knowing Purdy scrambles better, but he hasn't played the Eagles, Cowboys, Patriots, or Chiefs and the more aggressive front 7s so who know how he'll look this week.
I know what people are thinking.... where was the pass rush from Houston thru Washington? Good question, but I don't think we lost the ability to rush. I think injuries was a huge reason. And now that we're mostly healthy, we might see a revitalized team. The Jacksonville game is blown out of proportion.... we looked like we were going to run them out the building until Kelvin Joseph's one play ruined everything, and it just went downhill from that point on. If Kelvin Joseph doesn't make that one technical blunder, we probably cruise to a victory. That game was more about Joseph than any other deficiency. Against the Eagles, our pass rush was a no show again, but I thought that was more or less expected. They're 14-3 for a reason - their offense was gonna find a way to do what they've been doing all year, regardless who's Quarterback.... and that's not mentioning that Minshew might even be a better passer than Hurts. I knew that game was gonna be offensively oriented from the start. I thought we started to round back to form against the Titans and Commanders. Not at the level we were at the beginning of the year, but better than the 3 game stretch of Houston-Philadelphia, and now we're slowly trending our way up starting from the Bucs.
So which streak was the anomaly.... Houston-Philadelphia or what we've been doing most of the year? Better yet, do you think we'll be able to rush the passer against the 49ers?
Everyone says Tampa is awful, but their pass protection obviously isn't. We didn't get many sacks on Brady, but we forced him to get rid of the ball early a lot, and forced him well short of the sticks a bunch of times - he had to move on every 2nd play. If we duplicate that same effort on the 49ers, it's gonna be hard to beat us. Knowing Purdy scrambles better, but he hasn't played the Eagles, Cowboys, Patriots, or Chiefs and the more aggressive front 7s so who know how he'll look this week.
I know what people are thinking.... where was the pass rush from Houston thru Washington? Good question, but I don't think we lost the ability to rush. I think injuries was a huge reason. And now that we're mostly healthy, we might see a revitalized team. The Jacksonville game is blown out of proportion.... we looked like we were going to run them out the building until Kelvin Joseph's one play ruined everything, and it just went downhill from that point on. If Kelvin Joseph doesn't make that one technical blunder, we probably cruise to a victory. That game was more about Joseph than any other deficiency. Against the Eagles, our pass rush was a no show again, but I thought that was more or less expected. They're 14-3 for a reason - their offense was gonna find a way to do what they've been doing all year, regardless who's Quarterback.... and that's not mentioning that Minshew might even be a better passer than Hurts. I knew that game was gonna be offensively oriented from the start. I thought we started to round back to form against the Titans and Commanders. Not at the level we were at the beginning of the year, but better than the 3 game stretch of Houston-Philadelphia, and now we're slowly trending our way up starting from the Bucs.
So which streak was the anomaly.... Houston-Philadelphia or what we've been doing most of the year? Better yet, do you think we'll be able to rush the passer against the 49ers?
