Was Shanahan Wrong Deactivating Haynesworth vs. Indy

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Originally Posted by Longtimefan

I agree that could have been a reason, but Manning is so efficient at his position that you have to "force" him into making mistakes. Chances are better at accomplishing that with pressure than with coverage simply because it's so difficult to confuse him with coverages. Last night we tried to confuse him and wound up confusing ourselves.

I have a problem with that, simply because we had 4 clean shots at INTs, and got a strip fumble from him. That certainly says to me that the "plan" worked, it was the execution that failed. (channeling my inner zorn).