Norwood will play DE for Rivera...

[panthers55]

I beg to differ. I saw Brayton crash inside and allow RB's to run right by him on the outside way too many times. Also, DE's don't have to be huge to play the run well.

You can blame Meeks for that. Everyone of our DEs did that way too often. Johnson was the only one who routinely demonstrated the strength and ability to recover and still make the play. It was something Pepper's could do as well. The fact is that Meek's scheme was always suspect against the outside run which was a fundamental flaw of his system.

[DaCityKats]

but for a DE to have 0 sacks is bad no way around that. it's not about just stoping the run.

edit: and the scheme was built to get after the QB but yet he had no sacks. not sure about hurries.

[monstercat]

You can blame Meeks for that. Everyone of our DEs did that way too often. Johnson was the only one who routinely demonstrated the strength and ability to recover and still make the play. It was something Pepper's could do as well. The fact is that Meek's scheme was always suspect against the outside run which was a fundamental flaw of his system.

No DC teaches their DE's to give up outside contain that easily. Brayton was constantly taken out of the equation on those outside runs. When he would come in for Peppers, I noticed that our opponents were running to his side a lot. There was a reason for that, and it wasn't the scheme.

[Jackofalltrades]

Norwood is content to play DE, says that's all he did last season.

[OneBadassCat]

We should have a pretty damn good rotation of pass rushers this year. If our offense can pick it up these guys should stay fresh most of the game.

[CatMan72]

I'll give you this, Brayton's experience playing LB may make him more valuable in Rivera's zone-blitz scheme when he is asked to drop back in coverage... he's the only DE we've got at the moment that has any significant experience playing in space like that.

[KillerKat]

I don't think I see us carrying 5 DEs

[YourMomsLover]

Yea who really cares about devoting your time to stopping the run. Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning laugh at people with that mentality.

[DaCityKats]

he did lose containment a lot in games too. so how good is he vs the run?

[Snake]

I'll give you this, Brayton's experience playing LB may make him more valuable in Rivera's zone-blitz scheme when he is asked to drop back in coverage... he's the only DE we've got at the moment that has any significant experience playing in space like that.

I dont see him playing that far out IMO. Now I can see him being used as a DE in both formations.

[Fiz]

I don't think I see us carrying 5 DEs

I can't remember the last time we didn't.

[panthers55]

No DC teaches their DE's to give up outside contain that easily. Brayton was constantly taken out of the equation on those outside runs. When he would come in for Peppers, I noticed that our opponents were running to his side a lot. There was a reason for that, and it wasn't the scheme.

In Meeks scheme, from what I observed, if the DE made an inside move, the linebacker had contain on that side. We didn't have the tackle slide out and fill the edge but instead they took an inside route as well to limit the damage in the middle. With a tight end taking out the strong side linebacker and the fullback taking out the strong safety, they had nothing but green in front of them. At any rate three or four yards was a given.

No DE says give up the edge but when you are lined up across from the tackle and you know you have to get pressure yourself because there isn't going to be a blitz, the focus is making a quick move one way or the other. It makes it easy to get ridden out of the play. There was no misdirection, no stunts, no overloads, nothing. We didn't have the personnel to dominate the line and make plays. Pretty basic and easy to exploit.

[KillerKat]

I can't remember the last time we didn't.

In the past 5 years, we've only done it once and with the way we struggled against the run last season I believe we will carry 5 DTs rather than 5 DEs.

[Ivan The Awesome]

brayton might be on the way out

You mean brown too right?