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Panthers find little success when blitzing


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diggs was a pretty good blitzer himself, so losing him is going to make it even worse. we should change to a 5 man front (2 dts, 2 des, 1 lb) and play almost exclusively man coverage. the blitzing linebacker can move around and pick his gap to his own discretion.

or, we could do that corner blitz thing from the blindside more often, i guess, and be traditional. that'd probably work better.

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Um, b/c Fox's defense always rely on the front 4....this is the weakest one he has ever had in Carolina and by a pretty significant margin. In addition, to that.....Fox doesnt' blitz well......so that means that secondary full of guys who aren't really great in coverage under good conditions(Harris, Godfrey, Marshall)....will be picked apart.

people assume just because they are young, that they are awesome. or that the guys they replaced werent perennial probowlers. i just have this to say compare them to any starting dline out here today, how would they stack up?

how many years starting? are they even recovered?

as of right now the lions have a better dline than we do.

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You missed the point. I'm not surprised. Keep on beating your drum with nothing but you opion to back it up.

saying this is the weakest DL Fox has had isn't really opinion. Nor is it really opinion to point out the impact of a weak DL on the secondary in a Fox offense....or any 4-3 offense.

if I missed the point, then why don't you spell it out for me.

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I believe the point was that you can't really say the DLine is weak, just that it's a question mark/unknown. It might end up being above average, it might end up being a HUGE weakness but we really don't know right now.

sure you can say it is weak. based the guys projected right now to play....it is weak.

that would be like saying outside of Steve Smith we don't know what our WRs are capable of doing and claiming they might be above average. With who is on the roster right now, the WR position is weak outside Smitty.

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We have 2 DLine that were rookies last year, one that didn't play at all, the other that played a limited role. We traded for a couple of other young guys that have limited PT. If you want to go ahead and limit all their careers to say at best they will be average or below average then OK I guess...

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Last year I saw more blitzing and more blitzing success than any other fox-era year, but we are not a blitzing team.

Then you totally missed 2008 and 2007 for example. Trgovac blitzed alot more than Meeks often out of desperation when the line generated no pressure. In 2007 with Peppers a non-factor we blitzed the most I have seen under Fox. It was largely ineffective but we did it nonetheless. The last year we blitzed effectively with good results was 2006 when we finished 7th in total defense and were 4th in passing defense with 41 sacks. Compare that to being 17th in passing defense and only 23 sacks in 2007 although we blitzed more often.

In 2009 we were 4th again in passing defense with 37 sacks but many of those were generated by the line and not by blitzing. If Davis hadn't gone down last year I might have agreed with you. He was just cranking up the blitz when he got hurt.

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