Evero and the pass rush

[NAS]

Does his scheme prevent players from getting to the QB, or pinning their ears back?  His defense has consistently been in lowest ranks for sacks even when we had Brian Burns, and despite overall defensive improvement I think we ended 29th in sacks this year. 
 

Princely seems to allude that they’re not empowered to pin their ears to get to the QB 

 

[CarolinaRideorDie]

Evero plays a lot of zone coverage more than any DC. I think his philosophy is to play it safe and let them make mistakes, an opportunistic defense. Being so zone heavy, I actually think he greatly relies on an effective pass rush with only 4 guys and he doesn't like to blitz to create chaos. However, our pass rush is so poor and so that's why we get gashed for big chunk pass plays. I think Dan will work hard to upgrade our pass rush, Dan has attacked a team weakness every single off season. 

[TD alt]

Well he's not happy, and he doesn't want to piss off the boss.

I hate Evero's scheme with a passion. To me, it's just too spread out, far and in between. 

[Aussie Tank]

Scheme is a big reason. He wants them to set the edge and then get sacks on second efforts because of coverage. 

You can tell by the pass rush moves we see it's either a bull rush to the chest if the OT or a slight inside move. I can't remember seeing one of our edges trying to blow around the outside with a dip or rip all year 

[jopie87]

Evero's scheme is we'll let you move the ball, 3rd down conversion is OK as long as they dont score, hope the other team messes up. They dont force the action. 

[NAS]

19 minutes ago, jopie87 said:

Evero's scheme is we'll let you move the ball, 3rd down conversion is OK as long as they dont score, hope the other team messes up. They dont force the action. 

I feel like this was the case with River and McDermott defenses as well, we just had the jimmies and the joes to overcome these deficiencies with all pro players at edge and linebacker positions.  Even then, was extremely frustrated in 2015 when we'd let team come back from 20+ pt deficits playing prevent only to barely win at the end. 

[therealmjl]

Princely is the last person that should be talking.

[frankw]

Evero criticism goes without saying but Princely was outspokenly confident before the season and I was all for it but he did not back that up at all. He needs to focus his energy on that.

[Tr3ach]

1 hour ago, NAS said:

Does his scheme prevent players from getting to the QB, or pinning their ears back?  His defense has consistently been in lowest ranks for sacks even when we had Brian Burns, and despite overall defensive improvement I think we ended 29th in sacks this year. 
 

Princely seems to allude that they’re not empowered to pin their ears to get to the QB 

 

Yes, we played the 2nd most cover 3 in the NFL behind the Raiders.   The flats and seams are the areas you want to attack it so its soft spots are areas qbs can hit quickly which can definitely hurt the pass rush.

[carolinanimal]

7 minutes ago, frankw said:

Evero criticism goes without saying but Princely was outspokenly confident before the season and I was all for it but he did not back that up at all. He needs to focus his energy on that.

I think he feels that the scheme is holding him back. 

[uncfan888]

I'd give anything to go back to a 4-3 but we are so removed from having the pieces for that. All because Tepper wanted to force this 3-4 on all our coaches. 

[frankw]

8 minutes ago, carolinanimal said:

I think he feels that the scheme is holding him back. 

Right and I think we can have a conversation about that. But even with the scheme he should still be able to muster more than 1.5 sacks right? I mean DJ Johnson played in Evero's scheme too but that didn't stop us from calling him a bust.

Scourton didn't seem to have trouble flashing.

There can be different things true at one time.

[BritishPanther]

Looking at Scourton Vs Princely stats across the season (and I just pulled these off PFF):

Scourton was on the field for 3x as many snaps (717 vs 222) but didn't out perform him by that same volume. If you extrapolate it out then Princely would have had more tackles, assists, forced fumbles, stops and hits across the same volume. 

Appreciate it's not as simple as that, but it's encouraging. If he can keep his mouth shut long enough to stay on the team, and continues to develop, that is.

[NAS]

50 minutes ago, frankw said:

Evero criticism goes without saying but Princely was outspokenly confident before the season and I was all for it but he did not back that up at all. He needs to focus his energy on that.

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