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Originally Posted by O.city
IMO, the issue (if you wanna call it an issue) with the turnovers is they play alot of man on the back end. You just don't get many turnovers doing that.
They've gotta blitz alot to get sacks, really need the front to show up and let them play some more coverage.
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It's not just man - it's press man.
Off Man can get you picks BUT only if you're generating substantial pressure with your front 4 and thus forcing those quick passes that a CB can drive on.
Once the DB has to turn, the interception is mostly out the window unless it's a safety and our safeties aren't ball-hawks.
In press man, even the quick game interceptions are pretty rare.
I don't disagree (and made that point often last season) that our coverages impact our pick totals. That said, we just won't be able to run that as often as we did without Sneed. We're gonna need to do more matchup zone and off-man coverage this year.
I think the opportunities will increase by a fair bit - we just have to haul them in.