The Seahawks blitzed or stunted on 10 of 11 sacks. And also stunted on the Diggs pick.
The 1st Nwosu sack was their only vanilla rush sack of the night.
The biggest play of the game was ironically, vanilla cover 3 for the pick 6.
As I stated earlier in the pre-season and regular season, the team was too talented on defense to be a bottom 6 defense which is what they ranked in EPA going into the Giants game. And yes, the Giants are one of the worst offenses in football, but that's not the point. The point is to play to your personnel's strengths. They did it for a very brief window against DET, then more against CAR, then last night it started looking like what it should've looked like from the beginning. Positive reinforcement. The more they do it, the better the results they continue to get.
It's taken a month of regular season football for them to figure out what they should've already knew, but better late than never.
They are a pressure based attack that needs to amoeba it up, and bring rushers from everywhere, stunt, delay, drop, whatever, etc. They are not built to sit back in soft zone and let the front 4 do all of the work. That would require 2 substantive upgrades to the D-Line, which they do not have, and will not come anytime soon. BUT they are built to bring the heat from CB, LB, and S. 6 of their 11 sacks came from Witherspoon, Wagner, and Brooks. And 4 of the 5 sacks from the D-Line came on a blitz or stunt.
This style requires a lot more work during the week, scheming it up and putting it in, and Pete's going to have to live with potentially surrendering a big play every once in a while, but they have the horses to play this style and they must fully embrace it. It is the way they have to play if they want to be successful on defense. Not the old way.
The 1st Nwosu sack was their only vanilla rush sack of the night.
The biggest play of the game was ironically, vanilla cover 3 for the pick 6.
As I stated earlier in the pre-season and regular season, the team was too talented on defense to be a bottom 6 defense which is what they ranked in EPA going into the Giants game. And yes, the Giants are one of the worst offenses in football, but that's not the point. The point is to play to your personnel's strengths. They did it for a very brief window against DET, then more against CAR, then last night it started looking like what it should've looked like from the beginning. Positive reinforcement. The more they do it, the better the results they continue to get.
It's taken a month of regular season football for them to figure out what they should've already knew, but better late than never.
They are a pressure based attack that needs to amoeba it up, and bring rushers from everywhere, stunt, delay, drop, whatever, etc. They are not built to sit back in soft zone and let the front 4 do all of the work. That would require 2 substantive upgrades to the D-Line, which they do not have, and will not come anytime soon. BUT they are built to bring the heat from CB, LB, and S. 6 of their 11 sacks came from Witherspoon, Wagner, and Brooks. And 4 of the 5 sacks from the D-Line came on a blitz or stunt.
This style requires a lot more work during the week, scheming it up and putting it in, and Pete's going to have to live with potentially surrendering a big play every once in a while, but they have the horses to play this style and they must fully embrace it. It is the way they have to play if they want to be successful on defense. Not the old way.
