How Much Faith Do You Have In Our 2019 Pass Rush?

[Pantha-kun]

Just wondering what you all think of the pass rush as a whole now that the draft is over and free agency is pretty much over besides signing some role players . 

Honestly Im having a hard time envisioning this 3-4 stuff, can someone explain it more to me? Or is it just still up in the air how exactly its going to be implimented and who is going to play where? I'm presuming Luke and Shaq are in MLBs and then who are the OLBs? Will Burns be rotating from OLB and DE? Can he even play DE in 3-4 or 4-3? 

A lot of it just depending on how Burns does. We pretty much know we can always count on a workmanlike performance from Mario Addison , but he's essentially 32 going into this coming season so he could drop off in production somewhat soon.. No idea what to expect from Short and Poe after seeing them do nothing last season. Love is good, Butler is a bust. Obada hasn't proven to be a consistent producer. Irivin is in a simular catagory to Addison going to be about 32 for this season , proven production but getting older. 

I'm seeing a whole lot of question marks literally everywhere. Even Shaq and a bunch of our other LBs on the roster are kinda just guys that im not sure how much faith to put in them. 

I do not want another season of watching our defense get roasted. At this point I'm kinda hoping for the best but expecting the worst, unless we get a couple of players that unexpectedly start shredding it up early this year. 

[ncfan]

Good, top 12

With potential to be great top 5

[MasterAwesome]

You have way too many options here...like what goes into predicting that we will be average in sacks but generate lots of pressure? The opposing QBs on our schedule?

I feel optimistic about the talent of our pass rushers, but I’m concerned about the “3” in our 3-4...I’m not sure we have the talented big boys up front to free up our pass rushers to do their thing.

 

[Pantha-kun]

Just now, ncfan said:

Good, top 12

With potential to be great top 5

can you explain why you think that? 

[Pantha-kun]

Just now, MasterAwesome said:

but I’m concerned about the “3” in our 3-4...I’m not sure we have the talented big boys up front to free up our pass rushers to do their thing.

 

Same here, who would actually be playing on the Dline in 3-4 formations? I think Poe has experience at being the sole DT in a 3-4 but not sure about our other DTs. And who would be  the DEs? Could any of our DTs be DEs in a 3-4? 

[MasterAwesome]

8 minutes ago, Pantha-kun said:

Same here, who would actually be playing on the Dline in 3-4 formations? I think Poe has experience at being the sole DT in a 3-4 but not sure about our other DTs. And who would be  the DEs? Could any of our DTs be DEs in a 3-4? 

I think Short and Love have the size and strength to be good 3-4 DEs...but their ability is a question mark since I don’t think they have much experience in that scheme, like you said.

[Ricky Spanish]

Slight improvement from last year.

Year after though I would anticipate another significant improvement. 

[Riverboat Ron]

Expecting:

Addison- 12 sacks

Miller- 4 sacks

Haynes- 7 sacks

Irvin- 8.5 sacks

Burns- 18 sacks

KK- 8 sacks

Poe- 3 sacks

Butler- 4 sacks

Kuechly- 3.5 sacks

Thompson- 5 sacks

[Pantha-kun]

Just now, Riverboat Ron said:

Expecting:

Burns- 18 sacks

 

Holy fug... those are some lofty expectations there. 

[Riverboat Ron]

1 minute ago, Pantha-kun said:

Holy fug... those are some lofty expectations there. 

Might as well aim high.

[Mage]

With Rivera calling the shots, I expect it to be a lot better.  Probably not 2013 good, but somewhere around the top 10.

[dpm0409]

26 minutes ago, Riverboat Ron said:

Expecting:

Addison- 12 sacks

Miller- 4 sacks

Haynes- 7 sacks

Irvin- 8.5 sacks

Burns- 18 sacks

KK- 8 sacks

Poe- 3 sacks

Butler- 4 sacks

Kuechly- 3.5 sacks

Thompson- 5 sacks

hot damn!  If this is even remotely close it would be amazing

[mc52beast]

We have no proven pass rushers besides Irvin and Addison. Everyone else are question marks, Short and Poe played like crap last year, what do we get this year? 

Maybe taking the play calling away from Washington and Ron taking over will make a difference, just don’t know right now.

[JARROD]

I have to take the reserved road. Last year at this time when Hurney was signing Poe and that Cb that ended up hurt, It was exciting, then going into the draft and plugging holes. Hurney 2.0 had arrived on the scene.

the first games looked promising but then went to poo with the Steelers,.. and then we had many many close games like Seattle that we should have won but had errant bombs do us in, 

so for that I’m hoping our passrush is going to improve with Rivera taking the reins,.. getting the edges faster and more versatile—

but Burns Miller and others are rookies— and that position in the NFL takes time to develop.

our corners have not changed and this was the group giving up the errant bombs that made us lose 5-6 games instead of winning those.

so I’m not getting excited unless we were to go out and get another DB that had some attitude and quality to improve our air raid defense.