McIntosh and Fletcher!!!

[4mrusmc]

Thanks jbcrj14.

[redsk1]

You know what you are going to get out of LF, 10 tackles a game. Rocky has been so impressive this preseason and the 1st game. He is showing why we traded up to get him.

The reason why we didn't see ST and Landry????...They didn't throw any where down the field and our Dline and backers made some tackles yesterday. Great day on defense.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Is anyone else worried by the short passing defense though? While we shut down most deep and intermediate routes, we got eaten up underneath.

I guess that's good if we put up more points.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Is anyone else worried by the short passing defense though? While we shut down most deep and intermediate routes, we got eaten up underneath.

I guess that's good if we put up more points.

That's my only real concern with the defense. The middle 10-15 yard stuff is wide open, and Jason Witten(among others) lives there. I still think that it's more Williams scheme(along with the soft corner coverage) than the actual players, but that needs to be fixed ASAP.

[jbcjr14]

I think against a team like Dallas and NYG that has a dominant TE we will have to mix it up and put either ST or LL on them to keep them in check. Doing this will make the corners vunerable on the edges, but its a chance I think we will have to take.

Witten just ate up the middle of the field last night in 10-15 yard chunks.

[theJBexperience]

Originally Posted by jbcjr14

Yep. One by Carter and then another by McIntosh.

Carter almost had two but got shoved past Trent Green when he was reaching for him. He definitely looked good yesterday. Hopefully, our front four pass rush will continue to improve. It's hard to tell since Miami's o-line is so weak.

[jbcjr14]

I still think we are weak with the pass rush in the middle and I saw LL blitz once or twice yesterday and get eaten up. Hopefully it will improve over the coming weeks.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Honestly, there weren't a lot of blitzes. It seemed like GW was depending mainly on our front four and they provided a decent amount of pressure.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Is anyone else worried by the short passing defense though? While we shut down most deep and intermediate routes, we got eaten up underneath.

I guess that's good if we put up more points.

Well, the one or two times Green did go deep, ST was (again...) out of position, and Chambers was well behind the defense.

Luckily, he's Chris Chambers and will drop anything he can get his hands on. Still, there was not much to like about the pass D yesterday, IMO.

Obviously, the scheme wants someone else besides the DBs to be responsible for the hook/curl zone. This year, we just may have the LBs to do that. Rocky Mac and Washington are both quick enough to at least make the throw into the flat/curl zone a difficult one, wheras last year, Holdman and Marshall would just allow an easy throw. I think we improve against that short passing game this year.

The deep....eh, lets just say the early returns (sample size=2) aren't good at all.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Honestly, there weren't a lot of blitzes. It seemed like GW was depending mainly on our front four and they provided a decent amount of pressure.

Yeah, we were very close to a lot of sacks Sunday. We could have (and should have) gotten Green about 2-3 more times than we did. Just didn't finish.

We don't have a whole lot longer to improve. If we don't finish the play against McNabb, we will be looking at a 14 point deficit at half.

[Big C]

wheres espn bitching about us taking rocky now? he played great at the end of the season last year, and looked awesome today. forced fumble as well!

[redskins159]

The run game defense was amazing...the pass game had some mental lapses but Mcintosh really stood out as the defensive MVP. He was flying all over the place and now i can really see why Lemar Marshall was cut.

[JWsleep]

Fletcher makes everyone else in this D better, IMO. A great pickup. And ROcky is flourishing now.

The intermediate pass is a worry, but there's going to be soft spots in our cover-3 at times. Hopefully, we'll tighten up as things progress.

[RMSkins]

Originally Posted by redsk1

You know what you are going to get out of LF, 10 tackles a game. Rocky has been so impressive this preseason and the 1st game. He is showing why we traded up to get him.

The reason why we didn't see ST and Landry????...They didn't throw any where down the field and our Dline and backers made some tackles yesterday. Great day on defense.

Our D-line barely made any tackles yesterday, as a matter of fact Phillip Daniels, Kedric Golston, and Anthony Montgomery did not record one tackle yesterday, while Cornelius Griffin had 4tcks, Andre Carter, and Demetric Evans each recorded 2tcks.

[Cowell]

It's not a big concern to me if our defensive line is a bunch of stat whores. If they can plug up that offensive line and let our linebackers in there that is just fine if not better with me.