O line

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Originally Posted by illdefined

How do we stop it? Gibbs already tried 'max protect' and it didn't work, is it really a personnel issue (as glanced upon in the O Line thread), is our line really not as good as we say they are? our TE's not good at blocking?

I think the only true way to stop it is to make teams pay for it. I love crazy blitzing. I loved watching our guys blitz insanely last year. I'd love to watch us blitz every play this year and get 20 sacks a game but the problem with it is that a team only has to beat it 2 or 3 times and the game is over. It is a huge risk to blitz and that is why not every team just goes blitz crazy. They don't have the secondary to mitigate the risk or they don't have the personnell that can get the QB fast enough to not leave the secondary hanging. And that is how you stop the blitzing. You show teams you can beat it. You don't have to beat it a lot. Just enough to make teams think twice about it. Let's be honest if we lined and blitzed 3 guys every play we'd dominate 98% of the game but on those 3 or 4 other plays we'd get beat bad and that would be points. So beat the blitz a couple times and all of a sudden it will slow down. We seem to forget that when Turner was here we had a decent offense because they'd go donwfield on blitzes and hit a couple. Next thing you know teams weren't blitzing so much adn Davis became a running force. The checking down has got to stop or at least the checking down needs be designed well enough to get decent yardage otherwise thats exactly what they want. If they don't get a sack they'll take an incompletion or a two yard dump-off.