What's with the defense.
 

Though they gave up a lot of yards today they've played great, however, I still have one worry. No sacks and no turnovers forced in two weeks. They don't seem as aggressive or dominant as they were last year. Still play solid, but far too much prevent for my liking. Hey, if they do the job --who cares. Just wondering what others thought.

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The front line isn't getting to the QB that really has me worried. I didnt like how the CBs were always playing like 5 yards of their WRs. However screw it we are 2 and 0 and it feels great.

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Some people are hard to please, 20 points conceded in 2 games (half of which were gift wrapped) isn't too shabby.

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[QUOTE=Daseal]Though they gave up a lot of yards today they've played great, however, I still have one worry. No sacks and no turnovers forced in two weeks. They don't seem as aggressive or dominant as they were last year. Still play solid, but far too much prevent for my liking. Hey, if they do the job --who cares. Just wondering what others thought.[/QUOTE]


Our defense is fine. We fell for one lousy flea-flicker (a good call by Parcells that I never saw coming). If it weren't for them, we would have had zero chance in this game.

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The bend but don't break mentality worries me. I'd prefer no bending at all and breaking the other guy's back if possible.

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I think it has a lot to do with the fact we've faced a couple of really good offensive lines.

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[QUOTE=Mattyk72]I think it has a lot to do with the fact we've faced a couple of really good offensive lines.[/QUOTE]


You got to remember that Bill Parcells is so good at taking away one aspect of another team, no doubt he spent crazy time working on pass defense, he just didn't work on Roy Williams technique covering posts!!! :headbange

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i sorta agree with what daseal said. we've only forced one turnover, that was lemar marshall's int vs. the bears, and we didn't have any sacks on dallas. i expect more from this unit in the future. also, why didn't matt bowen start today? he's not injured, did he get beat in a position battle with priouleau or something? and what about lavar, i think he should be starting by now, but i have no doubts he'll be starting in week 4.

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we have an int and ff with fumble recovery by griffen, but the reason we don't get the turnovers is because our d line. If they can't pressure the quarterback by themselves it's hard to make the quarterback to make bad decisions.

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Davy, It's not being hard to please, it's something I noticed vs Chicago, and I noticed it again tonight, I said multiple times our defense is playing great, but we seem different.

I didn't really see Arrington once, did he even really play?

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No criticism from me tonight. That defense hung in there for 60 minutes in 100 degree weather carrying an offense that couldn't move the ball an inch.

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I think we're yet to make anything on the highlight reels on defense, but it'll come. They had nice pass protection and figured on us blitzing all night and we just kept them off kilter. All I know is they had 2 chances to get into field goal range adn couldnt get there. HAIL!!!!

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Dallas scored 24 points against the Chargers and 13 against us. One crazy ass flea flicker that is a fluke that Greg Williams said the defense knew would come, just got beat damn that sucks because the D is stuffing the run again, just missing the big play. Fantasy owners it does not look good, but damn they are GOOD!!!!!!

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Now that I think about you tak away the 1 trick play by Dallas and 2 turnovers deep in our own side and that makes up all of the points against us.

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I think alot of it was the game plan. Last year we got sacks on the blitz...this year we havent been blitzing...but we are giving up less than 2 scores per game....I think the man has a plan.

Did you notice how the prevent took more time off the clock and forced a shot into the endzone at the end of the game? If everyone is covered the QB takes longer to find a target...it made the difference between field goal range and have to hit the end zone

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[QUOTE=Kope]I think alot of it was the game plan. Last year we got sacks on the blitz...this year we havent been blitzing...but we are giving up less than 2 scores per game....I think the man has a plan.

Did you notice how the prevent took more time off the clock and forced a shot into the endzone at the end of the game? If everyone is covered the QB takes longer to find a target...it made the difference between field goal range and have to hit the end zone[/QUOTE]

I agree. The prevent is perfect for 36 seconds left and no timeouts. When teams use it with over a minute left is when I'll say "it prevents you from winning".

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[QUOTE=skins052bgr8]Dallas scored 24 points against the Chargers and 13 against us. One crazy ass flea flicker that is a fluke that Greg Williams said the defense knew would come, just got beat damn that sucks because the D is stuffing the run again, just missing the big play. Fantasy owners it does not look good, but damn they are GOOD!!!!!![/QUOTE]


The flea-flicker never works on Madden!

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I didn't see much of Arrington either? What gives?

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The D was great tonight, no doubt about it, they stopped them where they needed to and kept them from making multiple big plays. I to would like to see more sacks and int's, but as long as they keep offensives from scoreing more than 2 TD's a game, i can live with that, just need our offense to start hitting on all cylinders and we are there. Maybe this BIG win and it was a huge win, will give Brunell the confidence he needs to start producing like he did when he came into the league, like i said we have never really had the Great QB, so why is now any different, Gibbs will find the way.

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I think this is how Williams planned it. He wrong-footed Parcells by holding off on the blitz and taking away all the underneath stuff to the TEs and RBs. He also pretty effectively took out the deep ball, except for the trick play and one deep out against Taylor. The main thing is he stuffed the run. I figure that they felt the key was not to give up the big play. They gave up one, and it was almost enough. Fortunately, Brunnell to Moss happened!

The book on Williams is that he brings the mad blitz. But Bledsoe can pick people apart and spread the ball. So we took away Juius Jones and played to keep the pass in front of us. It worked, overall. 13 points. Not bad. Should have gotten fumbles on two plays as well, IMO. The main thing about blitzing is surprise. So this will help us down the road as well--changes the book a bit.

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The defense kept the Cowboys to 13 pts. Dealing with poor field position most of the game. Taylor got burned on the flea flicker; bet it won't ever happen again. He also made up for it with some amazing hits. 2 of Taylors hits were arguably fumbles. Think the officials were rooting for biglittle D? Motion called on Samuels, Dockery, Rabach and Thomas. Until the second half penalties were way in favor of Dallas and finished Washington 12 Dallas 7. Seemed a bit one sided to me. The no calls from Williams, but he got his in the end. Karma is a bitch! In Gibbs we trust!

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the D kept the skins in the game, no question. like luxor says, they worked with a short field the entire game and it's a testament to the unit that they only gave up less than 2 TDs for four quarters.

i love how williams fakes the blitz too- pile the line and then back off... yes, the Dallas O-line gave Bledsoe all the time in the world tonight... but the fact that they didn't have many huge plays means that the D had excellent coverage for most of the night.

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we had 3 sack and two turnovers last week vs chicago... this week we didn't blitz at all it seems, we just dropped 7-8 into coverage every play... it worked, but it was a strange site ;)