Bowen: Forget Rex, Bears' D was the problem
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IE is right; The Cover Two is designed to funnel the Wide outs to the inside. Sure there are some soft spots and you can get a pretty easy gain, but if a wide out beats the CB to the outside it's probably 6 pts.
It really is as easy as they fact that we are not getting pressure causes everything...
#1. Urlacher - The lack of pressure from the front four has killed him in three different ways. The mug look is making it easier for WRs in the slot or TE to get behind him. Instead of double or tripling Tommie, opponents are having a much easier time getting a blocker on Brian, and finally one of the most frustrating parts is the quarterback having all day back there allows the receivers to stretch the field more creating more gaps by forcing Brian to drop deeper and creating more separation between the corners and safeties.
#2. That final point on Brian was also my second point overall. You’re putting everyone in unwinnable situations because they have too much field to cover. I was watching Playbook the other day and they were breaking this down and arguing Graham Vs Vasher. They said Graham’s high tackle total is primarily padded by tackles on receiver he run a ten to twelve yard rout right under him and then he tackles them after a decent gain. The reason Vasher’s stats aren’t as good is because he’s trying to jump the ball too often and the receiver ends up getting another 5 to 7 yards before Payne brings them down.
#3. It is the ONLY difference between 06 and 08. The cover two has always been a bend but don’t break defense, the difference is it has always relied on the defense making the “Big Play” before the opponent crosses the goal line. Especially when the field shortens and the ‘zone’ gets tighter. Think back to how many time the D use to create a turnover in the red zone or at least hold the opponent to a field goal attempt (which we also lead the league in blocks of).
Sure the D-Line isn’t playing good enough to run the cover 2 right now, but with HH and Vasher’s liability in coverage and Manning, Payne, and Roach’s growing pains, along with Browns lack of speed we don’t have the personal to completely abandon it. We’ve already reduced the percentage of time we run it, but you’ve seen how we’ve generally preformed on first and second down out of it only to give up a third and long when we shift back into it on third down.
It really is as easy as they fact that we are not getting pressure causes everything...
#1. Urlacher - The lack of pressure from the front four has killed him in three different ways. The mug look is making it easier for WRs in the slot or TE to get behind him. Instead of double or tripling Tommie, opponents are having a much easier time getting a blocker on Brian, and finally one of the most frustrating parts is the quarterback having all day back there allows the receivers to stretch the field more creating more gaps by forcing Brian to drop deeper and creating more separation between the corners and safeties.
#2. That final point on Brian was also my second point overall. You’re putting everyone in unwinnable situations because they have too much field to cover. I was watching Playbook the other day and they were breaking this down and arguing Graham Vs Vasher. They said Graham’s high tackle total is primarily padded by tackles on receiver he run a ten to twelve yard rout right under him and then he tackles them after a decent gain. The reason Vasher’s stats aren’t as good is because he’s trying to jump the ball too often and the receiver ends up getting another 5 to 7 yards before Payne brings them down.
#3. It is the ONLY difference between 06 and 08. The cover two has always been a bend but don’t break defense, the difference is it has always relied on the defense making the “Big Play” before the opponent crosses the goal line. Especially when the field shortens and the ‘zone’ gets tighter. Think back to how many time the D use to create a turnover in the red zone or at least hold the opponent to a field goal attempt (which we also lead the league in blocks of).
Sure the D-Line isn’t playing good enough to run the cover 2 right now, but with HH and Vasher’s liability in coverage and Manning, Payne, and Roach’s growing pains, along with Browns lack of speed we don’t have the personal to completely abandon it. We’ve already reduced the percentage of time we run it, but you’ve seen how we’ve generally preformed on first and second down out of it only to give up a third and long when we shift back into it on third down.
