12-05-2024, 08:11 PM
Or before camp..
We carried extra DTs knowing we were starting depleted, but thinking that September games don't really matter and that the DLine would gel eventually.
We hoped that the new blood and Rankins would improve the inside pass rush. The result: 2 sacks for BJ Hill, 1 each for Jenkins and Rankins, and a split sack for Zach Carter and Tufele. We hoped that a healthy Hubbard would return to form, when he had 5-7 sacks; he has 2. Ossai has 2. Murphy has zero.
A better pass rush wouldn't expose the deep but non-elite CBs, or the unathletic but savvy safeties. Not only didn't any pass rush materialize, but the early gashing in the run game left the inexperience CBs and unathletic safeties shell-shocked, freelancing in a system that had left them exposed.
In other words, the defense was set up to fail.
We carried extra DTs knowing we were starting depleted, but thinking that September games don't really matter and that the DLine would gel eventually.
We hoped that the new blood and Rankins would improve the inside pass rush. The result: 2 sacks for BJ Hill, 1 each for Jenkins and Rankins, and a split sack for Zach Carter and Tufele. We hoped that a healthy Hubbard would return to form, when he had 5-7 sacks; he has 2. Ossai has 2. Murphy has zero.
A better pass rush wouldn't expose the deep but non-elite CBs, or the unathletic but savvy safeties. Not only didn't any pass rush materialize, but the early gashing in the run game left the inexperience CBs and unathletic safeties shell-shocked, freelancing in a system that had left them exposed.
In other words, the defense was set up to fail.
