DKphin
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Too early to panic, but we can certainly be alarmed after Eagles blitz Dolphins’ D
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I don't remember the guy around here who has continually and consistently lambasted our defensive scheme, but I'd like to shake his hand. Guess that dude might actually know what he has been ranting about.
DKphin
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Patting yourself on the back much?
I'm having my own circle jerk over here with lub from the tears of how bad our scheme is.
And for all the flack I've caught around here, damn right I'm tooting my horn.
Jeep
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If we lose a game or the season this year, it wont be because of the offense or defensive front 7... It will all be on the secondary
If the pass rush can't get home then it exposes the back 7. We'll have issues all up and down this defense.
MiZFiT
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And that will happen often when teams go tempo/no-huddle. Slows down the rush and exposes the secondary for what it is.
Brady will have two more easy games against our D. Just have to hope the offense can out-score them, which is unlikely.
Jeep
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I kinda disagree... The front 7 will do decent against the run... not the best and not the worst, but extremely respectable... They will also get pressure on the QB and will, at minimum, get the QB to have happy feet... But you can not expect them to put pressure on the passing game every single down... Thats where the secondary needs to step up, but we play way too soft and will allow those 3rd down conversions that will keep the wrong team on the field...
I dont know if its scheme or talent, but we need to play tighter and bump the receivers coming off the line.. anything we can to disrupt their timing.. if not, they will eat big again this year
Front seven can't get to Brady, he gets the ball out to quick. Hopefully he'll retire soon.
phinfan33
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..I guess asking you to try and be humble about it is out of the realm of possibility huh.
Not a chance.
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phinfan33
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Lol. I do agree in that I'm not fond of this Wide 9 scheme either.
That's our front 4's only job and first read - pass rush.
As far as playing press coverage it has to come via Cover 2 and that means we must be able to stop the run first with our front 7. But again, our DL's first read is pass rush then react to the run, so that the run responsibility in our scheme falls heavily on the LB unit. So when they struggle (and they will struggle in this scheme) we have to bring Jones into the box to help vs the run and that in turn takes press coverage off the table b/c we don't have a FS with S2S range to make up for any mistakes made by the CBs and/or when a WR is able to restack them.