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Run defense


panther4life

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We're alright in runs up the middle but on runs with pulling guards or stretch plays, that's where we've been getting torn up. It's just about setting the edge and we did a little better this time. Fortunately for us, the skins seemed to stop running as much once we got a touchdown and hightower went down.

We're also vulnerable on the 3rd and long draw play. but if we blitz, we usually contain it.

Tackling needs to get better too. Too many guys trying to do other things than bring the guy down. Wrapping up needs to be worked on. Too many arm tackles and guys not squaring up. Some of that is because they're not in the right positions to begin with though. Sometimes we've called the right play but we've failed to set the edge and thus move the play out further than it needed to be and thus our linebackers get out of position and try to arm tackle fools. Can't do that against guys like Michael Turner and Blount and Forte. Those are big and powerful guys with really good balance.

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Our LBs can't shed blockers to save their lives. They take the block head on and go with the blocker. This is something Beason and Davis were both good at NOT doing, since they were both faster and apparently stronger than our current group, but even then it's hard to have to keep doing play after play.

Having a mixture of poor DTs who can't eat up doubles and LBs who aren't that fast nor strong, makes for a really bad recipe against the run.

Our safeties aren't the hardest crashing safeties either, they don't have top tier speed so to prevent getting beat they don't bite down much for runs unless it breaks out to them and by then we're already cussing out everybody else for not stopping the run earlier.

The whole D unit right now isn't that good. Everyone should just realize that now so you won't expect that much come Sunday.

We're going to have to keep a lead so our D can basically predict what the other team will do (pass due to being down) in order for them to play decently. That and capitalize on mistakes, which we did fairly well today, are the keys this season for any success on D. In the next year or two (with a few acquisitions via draft/FA and experience) I think we'll be pretty intimidating on both sides of the ball.

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