What was D-Law doing

[HungryLion]

Listen, Dlaw has been really good this season overall.


But what was he doing on QB contain today?


He is a veteran. He has to know better. He has to contain better.

He needs to fix that

 

[Carson]

Defensive lineman don’t contain Justin Fields. It’s like the Vicks back in the day

 

[Ranched]

Give it a rest & stop knit picking on these players. They're human beings & not robots.

 

[HungryLion]

Defensive lineman don’t contain Justin Fields. It’s like the Vicks back in the day

His angles were horrific. All he has
To do is stay outside and at least make
Fields run up the middle and not untouched around the side for 15 yards.

 

[HungryLion]

Give it a rest & stop knit picking on these players. They're human beings & not robots.

The entire point of this forum is to discuss the team. I’m just pointing out what needs to change for this team to compete.

If you don’t like it. Stay out of the thread.

 

[Beaker42]

Defensive lineman don’t contain Justin Fields. It’s like the Vicks back in the day

Maybe not but he needed to do better. He needed to make sure Fields handed the ball off.

 

[jwooten15]

Playing hero ball, per usual. He gets burned way too often and can’t make athletic tackles

 

[GoldenR]

Just dumb.

 

[HungryLion]

Maybe not but he needed to do better. He needed to make sure Fields handed the ball off.

This is one of the issues. The DE’s are
Crashing on the read option.

I would rather they not crash and let the middle of
The defense worry about the RB.

 

[Stash]

Listen, Dlaw has been really good this season overall.


But what was he doing on QB contain today?


He is a veteran. He has to know better. He has to contain better.

He needs to fix that

Yep. Or sit him for someone how WILL keep contain.

 

[VaqueroTD]

Would like to watch those plays again and see if Fields faked him out. Did seem like he should have had more sacks but he got his in the end.

 

[gimmesix]

Listen, Dlaw has been really good this season overall.


But what was he doing on QB contain today?


He is a veteran. He has to know better. He has to contain better.

He needs to fix that

On the plays fans are getting mad about he's being left in no man's land with the quarterback able to either hand off or keep the ball. The design of the play is to block down to the left and leave the end up block so that he has to choose whether to tackle the running back or the quarterback. If he goes for the running back, the quarterback pulls the ball out and takes off. If he goes for the quarterback, the QB hands off and the running back has all kinds of room to run to that side of the field.

That's how the play is designed, to put pressure on the end because he's got to essentially stop two players. The only thing you can hope for as an end in that situation is that you fake out the quarterback. He tried that on Fields' last run. Lawrence dipped toward the running back then bent back to Fields, but Fields is a tough runner to take down when you don't hit him full force.

 

[gimmesix]

Would like to watch those plays again and see if Fields faked him out. Did seem like he should have had more sacks but he got his in the end.

I wouldn't say faked him out. He just read him. Once Lawrence committed to the back, Fields would pull the ball out and go around him. If Lawrence had committed to Fields, then you leave the ball in the back's gut and let him run to that same side of the field with the offense walling off the rest of the line and linebackers.

 

[cowboyec]

DLAW is still far and away our best run defender.
justin fields is just a helluva athlete.
i have no concerns about #90.

 

[Flamma]

Defensive lineman don’t contain Justin Fields. It’s like the Vicks back in the day

It's not that. DLaw has to contain the outside. Let fields run inside if need be. Don't let him escape to the outside. DLaw took bad routes to the QB.

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Fields is a double threat , its hard to contain that.

 

[gimmesix]

His angles were horrific. All he has
To do is stay outside and at least make
Fields run up the middle and not untouched around the side for 15 yards.

He can't stay outside or Fields hands the ball off and the back goes between Lawrence and the line wall. That is the design of the play. It's tough to stop unless you know it's coming and get a second defender on that right side to play the QB while Lawrence takes the back (or vice versa).

 

[Wezsh0T]

His angles were horrific. All he has
To do is stay outside and at least make
Fields run up the middle and not untouched around the side for 15 yards.

That's exactly what Kearse did on his sack. Forced Fields back up the middle where he had help.

 

[gimmesix]

It's not that. DLaw has to contain the outside. Let fields run inside if need be. Don't let him escape to the outside. DLaw took bad routes to the QB.

He wasn't taking a route to the QB. He was taking a route to the RB and then trying to adjust when the QB keeps the ball.

Some of you would be upset with him if he just went after the QB or played contain to the outside and the RB took off into the hole between Lawrence and the wall. He's got to play the back even if it leaves Fields with room to run.

What we needed to do is read those plays better. We either needed to have someone from the secondary come up to play the QB or a second defender shift over or loop around the end to play the run or the QB. Maybe we'll learn from this because we'll see more of it from Philly.

 

[Tommy]

Fields is a double threat , its hard to contain that.

Fields is a good runner.

What is the other threat?