Post your plan to fix the pass rush

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

When does the run start?

[Beerman]

Get Ingram and Attaochu back. Voila!

[Steve]

Our D was at it's best this season with Verrett, Flowers and Wright at CB, Ingram, Freeney and Attaochu at DE (OLB) and Teo (Gachkar/Conner) and Butler at ILB, and a solid rotation of the whole DL at DT. Even when Gilchrist was playing nickle DB, it was an OK rotation.

Freeney is just getting too old to play that many snaps, Ingram and Attaochu just needs to be able to play, and the rest of it will work itself out.

Clearly, unless we can find a way to get our edge rushers healthy, we are just going to keep stumbling through this. The OLB/DE spot is been a problem since Merriman was suspended and has been pretty downhill ever since. Since then we have put a lot of energy into it, by drafting English and Ingram in the 1st, Attaochu in the 2nd, Williams in the 5th and a lot of promise in Tucker as a UDFA (along with some wasted cap space). But we still can't seem to get a pair of guys (or more) on the field consistently since then.

[Panamamike]

only 1 with Bionic Shoulders that averaged 2 INTS per game in College, but the real NEED in the Secondary is a in the box SS like Rodney that can intimidate and lay the wood on any WRs in his area. That will of course require a 2nd top of the 1st round pick next year, that we should acquire by trading Rivers after his next streak of good games when his stock is back up.

Great strategy....10 years ago. Those safeties are no longer allowed to make punishing over the middle. That is why they are nearly extinct.

[Panamamike]

One answer....get healthy. It's hard to generate a pass rush when you are using the bottom of your roster for most of the season.

[thelightningwill]

Great strategy....10 years ago. Those safeties are no longer allowed to make punishing over the middle. That is why they are nearly extinct.

The Rodney Harrison strategy didn't really work that well when we tried it with the real Rodney Harrison. People probably didn't like getting hit by him, but it didn't seem to stop them from beating our secondary ad nauseam during Rodney's career with us. And, even during his playing days, he got a lot of penalties.

[Steve]

if we were going to use an enforcer type of S, the guy would probably be more useful as a replacement for an ILB, rather then actually play S.

Back in the days Rodney and the other enforcers were used, most of those guys played down in the box like an extra LB. They wouldn't last as strictly deep S types, who had to cover WR. They either got the TE in coverage, or got RB going out in coverage. Now those TE and RB are slot WR and pass catching TE, rather then the big bruisers who played RB back then. I still think some of them can play, but it is a pretty small group of S to draw from and I do think most would have to really become coverage LB so that they didn't get completely exposed in coverage. A few guys like Troy P still are around, but they are pretty tough to find.

If we can find those kind of big, enforcer type of S, I still think going to a cover 2 style of D, with extra S in place of 1 or more LB would give us a faster D. But we are struggling to find enough S as it is, so playing a big nickle kinda D is propobbaly not going to happen too soon.