FinNasty23
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Exactly. The way to attack that defense is to RUN THE BALL. Indy has somewhat of the same problem - their D-Line is entirely focused on rushing the QB. Miami uses its D-Line to pressure the passer, while the defensive backs focus almost entirely on the receivers. That should make them very vulnerable to the run.
It definitely hurt a lot not having Maroney, but Dillon and the others were still able to do quite well rushing the ball. I don't understand at all why we didn't focus more on the run, since it was working so well. Keep running the ball until their D-Line has to stop focusing on trying to get upfield to pressure Brady, and the safeties start coming in to try to stop the run - which makes them alter their coverage scheme. THEN pass.
That, and we should have focused a lot more on the RB and TE screens. Miami did a fair amount of blitzing - and teams that blitz and have their D-Line focus on rushing the QB are very vulnerable to screens. Yet, we hardly ran any. Very bad play-calling IMO. Not just that game, but much of the year. Our offensive schemes haven't really focused much on taking advantage of what the defense is doing (another example is against Indy, when we did wayyyy too much passing against a horrendous rush defense).
Our d is nothing like Indy's though. Yes, we try to rush the passer alot... but we are VERY good against the run... one of the better teams in the NFL actually.