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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Nearly every passing snap. They tried HB screens in Clark's direction just 2-3 times, which he defended perfectly, and then they gave up on that as well. He also pretty much took away Baker's roll out to the left, which has been his bread-and-butter for the season since about week 10.
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Against effective run heavy teams like cleveland, where the bulk of their downfield attack is built off heavy play action and waggle, the emlos has a lot of pressure to be able to scrape the line on zone runs away while still having to defend the waggle. Clark played the role well, both ends had more of a 'mush rush' strategy to be able to defend screens or disengage if Baker was able to break the pocket. The rush primary came from 1/3 techs and blitzing where they could get +1 free. Overall Spags gameplan yesterday was spot on. Ward still seems lost sometimes when he's playing 1/3rd's.