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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Really, my biggest issue was with our first half game plan against Keenum.
I can understand not sending the house because you really have no idea what you're getting yourselves into with a rookie. The problem was, we were getting absolutely no pressure AND we were having issues covering down field because of it. We were consistently giving up big plays in the passing game because.. we were afraid to give up the big play by blitzing?
After the second or third 40+ yard pass I thought we should have brought some more guys to get pressure. I was pleased that we eventually did that in the 2nd half; just a bit annoyed that we didn't adjust sooner.
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Sutton talked about the first half being on him. He was calling coverages that we never run and toying around to see what their noob QB could identify. He also said and gave the kid credit for knowing the best way to go after the formations we were in during the 1st half.
He also said that he quit testing his ability to spot our packages in the 2nd half and started calling our defensive formations we more regularly run and mixed in some more pressure but any blitzes we ran were all plays we've shown and used in games previously this year.
Hey if he wants to show more stuff for upcoming teams to have to study up on that just increases the looks they have to devote time to, and he's holding back some of our looks using the blitz, that's his prerogative- so long as it doesn't cost us a game.
Once we got back to playing our normal scheme if I'm not mistaken I believe in the 4th quarter we ended up having 4 or 5 sacks, forced a turnover, and their offense had a total of -1 yards. Not a terrible way to shut them down to end the game.