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Another Cam thread

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lightsout Grand Master

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Nothing to see here. Just a little something I started thinking about.

Early in the season, we saw a lot of teams blitzing Cam all to hell. That didn't work out too well for those defenses. So, they sat back in zone and brought 4, sometimes 5 at him. Cam had a hiccup, but now it seems that he has figured that out.

So, now, DCs are going to have to pick their poison. You either blitz and pray you get to Cam before he can escape or get a pass off, or you sit back in zone and hope he doesn't pick you apart or just flat out take off for 5 yards a pop with his legs.

This isn't really a surprise, as most of us with football sense know that Cam has this ability, and we knew it the moment we drafted him. However, I expected THIS to come next season. The guy is already becoming that. While our playoff chances are all but diminished entirely, we can still play spoiler for a couple teams and we can still get Cam these snaps for him to learn how to completely terrorize teams.

Just a thought. You can go back to making hypothetical Chud/Shula leaving threads and talking about how we need new uniforms, how cool the black endzones are, and how you want Hurney gone if we don't start getting better talent on defense.

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I've noticed how sacks on Cam in the first half generally came off the edge, in the last few games it seems like all the effective pressure is coming right up the middle.

Most come off the right A and B gaps. That's on guard play. Also, some C gap on that side. A lot of stunting is causing that pressure up the middle.

The reason pressure early on came off the edge was that, with teams bring 6 and even 7 guys, you can't stunt as much to get effective pressure. Just gap responsibility. It was easy for the interior OL to hold up when guys are just releasing right on them, then they can cave that down. But that extra guy would come off the edge.

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He needs another move besides that spin out or a DE will start to play that too. No one has stopped it yet but it is coming I assure you.

The only thing a DE can do is attack him wide and hope he doesn't step up and slip by. He has done that a couple times. The only time you are going to stop that spin out is if there is also an outside backer sitting there waiting...or a ref (as we saw about 6 weeks ago).

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