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Originally Posted by Aspengc8
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.
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Don't know what an 'emlo' is.
But yeah. I noticed that most of the edge rushes looked like 'mush-rushes,' which makes sense after watching PIT's DL not only not get any real consistent pressure on Baker, but also allowed him to escape behind the rush multiple times. Seemed obvious that Spags had decided to skip the real edge rush thing for the most part, and just make sure Baker couldn't actually repeat that performance against us.