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Originally Posted by DaBruinz
Blitzing has never been the norm for the Pats. Quite the opposite. Especially under Crennel. He like to just bring different LBers on the Rush. That's what made his defenses so unpredictable.
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THAT's exactly what I found so frustrating about the defenses we've showed up until this last game. Their consistent SAMENESS and lack of unpredictability. I'm not a big believer of rushing 6 or 7 men with any regularity. However rushing 4 or 5 from different and constantly changing angles is something I am a big fan of.
Its not about coming with "the house" but looking like you are and not. Its the art of disguise. Its the art of rushing only 4 but making it seem likes its more to the QB and OL,
That's why the 3-4 slowly took over the league. Its still just another 7 man front, where everyone is covering one of the front 7. But, as we have seen these last 8 weeks, the beauty of the 3-4 was that you could add that 4 rusher from any of 4 different angles. You could bring 2 LB's and drop a DLman into a short zone, as Dick Lebeau has been doing for 20 years with his zone blitzes
It was the flexibility you describe, DB that made the 3-4 so popular in the last decade. There are pluses and minuses of course. The 4-3 gives you 2 immediate inside pass rushers which is so important in the quick pass offenses of today's NFL. Harder to do that from a 3-4, so there are choices.
The point is DB, that we weren't doing either. We didn't seem to be blitzing OR stunting, or much more than rushing 4 guys into the outside shoulders of their offensive counterparts Hopefully, either through desperation, or player development, this will not longer be the case, and we will see a better balance of defensive, disguise, aggression, and maximum coverage
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