Brian Burns

[SOJA]

Played a LOT of off ball coverage today. He didn't do that bad, and even had an excellent tackle in space that kept us alive. 

But he was clearly our best pass rusher yesterday. Did Rhule make any comments on this? Generally you want your best pass rusher, rushing the passer. Esp considering we had no sacks yesterday. 

I thought our rookies played pretty well on defense yesterday all things considered (No OTAs, no real TC, and no preseason games). I suppose the same could be said for Phil Snow. 

[Snake]

He's a Jack trying to play DE. I mean I would expect him to be good at that and it was probably used to keep the other team from mauling him. I really wish we would have kept the 3-4 just for him but that's history. 

[hepcat]

Burns looks a lot like a thinner Aldon Smith after watching the Cowboys game last night. He has the same kind of speed that made Smith so successful, but not the same kind of strength.

[LinvilleGorge]

The Raiders have a very good OL. I'm not gonna panic about Burns and the overall pass rush just quite yet.

[NCBlu]

I like Burns as a stand up rusher or DE didn't really like the 3-3-5 looks with him as a olb. He can play it just think it's a waste of what he does best.

 

[SetfreexX]

Overall the Raiders didn't really just drop back and pass downfield outside of spots, they ran the ball, and hit us up short outside to do the majority of their damage, no DL is going to get home when you can't force the QB to hold the ball, whether that was personnel or scheme is still TBD.