Pressure or Coverage....

[unicar15]

How about Turdovac blitzing the house consistently on 3rd and long....you would think after the first 10 times it didn't work he would just let our DBs try and stop them and get a coverage sack.

[VGcollector]

i say coverage look at what Stev Smith does on a lot of plays jake is being pressured a lot but he finds Steve wide open or when smitty does a smoke route and jake throws quick to him for score. It's all coverage u can pressure the QB only so much in 2-4 seconds before he throws with quick release to a wide open receiver. so if we do better on coverage for 3-6 seconds i guarantee a sack,tipped ball, int, PD, ect. But i will tell u this it wouldn't hurt for us to increase pressure or at least not to let sacks go through our finger and miss them. Just my opinion though.

[VGcollector]

^^^ prob true but we can't play press with a rookie FS and a SS who strong point is the run. trust me next year we will be even better than now at defence.

[Sweeneyman]

QB Pressure, and our coverage is way too loose as well.

Our receivers catch a ball, and defenders are hanging all over them by the time they touch the ball. Opposing receivers catch the ball and have a 5 yard cushion between them and our closest defender.

[I am Hubby]

I know I am just the new guy, but my opinion matters.... at least to me. Pressure causes mistakes. Mistakes leads to turnovers. However, we can't get pressure with only our D-line. We are who we are in that regard.

I am quite sure Foxy will address this issue in the off season. The problem is; We need pressure NOW. We don't blitz very well, can't get pressure with our D-line. Which means our DBs can't press. A catch 22 kind of thing.

It is our most glaring weakness, I however, don't think it is lethal, just harmfull.

GOOOO CATS!!!

[ChucktownK]

The problem is that we don't adjust to pressure coverage once in a while when our QB pressure is clearly not working. All together makes for a conservative D.

[beastson]

No wonder why the voting is equal

Cause it is equal

I think earlier in the year it was pressure. Now its coverage

Cause I was watching live wire last night, and Pep and them almost got there. When he turn around, they threw for a first down

And Pep was like "come on man"

We saw what pressure did to Brees in the 1st half and a little of the 3rd quarter

[Seamonk]

I think a lot of people get Sacks confused with Pressure. Sacks happen because of blown Blocking assignments or being overhandled. We can be so and so in the league in Sacks but that doesn't necessarily mean we're getting close to the qb on every play. There are such things are coverage sacks that also skew the stats. A Sack is nice, but unlike Pressure it can't happen every play. We need Pressure, we need the QB to release earlier than he wants to or make their o-line over compensate for our pressure and greatly limit their gameplan.

[natty]

The easy way to tell would be to every play that an offense has passed more than a few yards(actual pass, not a catch and run, not a screen, not a wr screen) and count how much time the QB had. If that average is more than 5 seconds you can say it's lack of pressure, if under then coverage.