We Blitzed Too Much

[KSpan]

You realize that different packages are installed for each team based on what the coaches see in their protections right?  Meaning that there will pretty much always be something new and fresh each week.  Your concern is unwarranted.

[CRA]

Prior to the game, we had already established how we blitz. We gave nothing away.

Tampa simply handled it effectively...

If you listen to opposing coaches discuss our blitzing prior to a game....they talk about how simplistic our blitzes are....and that we had been very effective with them

[CRA]

And also, every week you aren't going to dominate....are well timed blitzes simply will not work every week. Unrealistic

[TbTeRRoR]

I was fairly dissapointed we didn't get more pressure with just 4....... I felt like we had to blitz after the first 3/4 series when we just were not getting pressure with  4

[jarhead]

Are sure you did not mean bitch instead of blitz?

[chknwing]

knowing were gonna blitz and stopping it are two completely different things

[Argus Plexus]

Oh, Huddle...

[Rubi]

I need the hard ass from Full metal Jacket to take care of this pile of an OP....

[therealmjl]

I will say that the Bucs did a really good job with blitz pickup.

[Kurb]

Shitty blitzes and gave too much game tape away to our future opponents. Didn't like it at all. Especially against a shittastic team like the Bucaqueers.

 

Conceptually the "Jim Johnson" style that McDerms uses has a ton of blitzing in it. Think about those Eagle Defenses of the early 2000's. They generated a ton of sacks and turnovers through blitzes. 

 

If our playbook was only 50 plays long I would agree with you, but so far, every game we have had I have noticed a new wrinkle in McDerms blitz schemes.   

 

Now I did have an issue with how much the Keekster was blitzing last night, but that was part of a new wrinkle. Last week Keek and TD would show blitz and Keek would back out on the snap. Last night it was the opposite.   I think Keek is better roaming that TD, but I digress. 

 

 

Should we have taken a knee every play up 20 to not show any game tape as well?

[GotSwag?]

I didnt feel like we blitzed at all.  Just the normal basic blitzes if anything.  

[panthers55]

We have blitzed in every game where our front four wasn't get enough pressure and often blitz on third down.  Nothing we did last night gave anything away.  There is plenty of film of us blitzing already.  The point is mixing it up so even when they know we are blitzing they don't know from where.  And that changes from week to week.

 

This thread is not well conceived I am afraid.

[SteveSmithTD89]

Disagree.  I think it was a standard blitz to try and put pressure on Glennon.  After re watching the game I didn't see any line stunts, any delayed blitz of any kind and was pretty much Kuechly and or Davis running straight into the running back.  No zone coverage schemes with the D line, no intricate double A gap pressure.  Just a very typical vanilla blitz.  If anything it used to set up our fake blitz then drop into coverage look we run so often.

 

If we were to run the same pressure scheme against a Tom Brady or Drew Brees... we're fugged.  But I would be willing to bet any vanilla scheme be it blitzing to coverage is going to be trouble against them.  I doubt we've seen the more complicated of blitzes we're going to run.  This is the NFL, nobody got here by being brazen and stupid.  Every single coach in the NFL is overly cautious.  Whether it be play calling, execution, game planning, security at practice you name it.  Nobody is going to intentionally give a leg up to the competition. 

[MichaelNewtonII]

we were getting sacks tho