09-21-2018, 09:24 AM
(09-21-2018, 09:12 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Sure you can, and although I understand what you are saying with “man coverage” and their backs being turned, I would think you could have Dennard stay on CM without altering everything else in your game plan. He is our best tackler and is versatile enough to stick with him, or rush the passer if his key on CM would tell him he’s staying in to block.
They wouldn’t be blitzing if they did this, and I think it would force Cam to make higher-risk throws, as well as hold the ball longer which can only help the pressure.
No, you really can't. You can get away with guys following in zone on the outside, but not in the backfield because of the two way go. You'd have to have him playing man which means your not going to put zone behind that, it just would leave too big of gaps. The other issue is that means you are in dime personnel because you can't leave a LB out on a slot WR when they go 3 wide since a CB is taking the HB. Now we are in dime personnel all game, which puts us at a mismatch on the slot with Dennard on CMC and Phillips or Mcrae on DJ Moore, and so Carolina starts running a bunch of inside zone and killing us as their O line are now getting to the second level on DB's instead of LB's. When we sell out to stop the run from our dime personnel package they crush the slot mismatch.
CMC is not going to single handily beat us catching check down passes. We will probably play zone mainly with some press man on longer 3rd downs. As someone else said you can slow down CMC by sending extra blitzers and making him stay in to block. You don't get too cute and break fundamental football concepts for CMC, he is good but he isn't as good as guys here are acting like Le'Veon Bell is better and we have bottled him up before.
