Cardinals raving about Calais Campbell

[82CardsGrad]

Campbell has more sacks, tackles, tackles for loss, QB hurries, QB hits, passes defensed, and forced fumbles then Antonio Smith does. Also keep in mind Campbell has only played in 5 games where as Smith has played 6.

Teams are staring to actually double Campbell. I have seen more and more as the season moves along. When the Cards go with a 3 man front with Campbell on the outside and Dockett playing the nose, Branch is left all alone on the other side and is partly the reason for the emergence of Branch. Teams are so worried about Dockett and Campbell in that formation that Branch is forgotten and Branch is making teams pay for it. If you notice close enough we are running that formation a lot as the season goes on.

The way you beat our front 7 is to max protect on every pass play. We can rush the passer very well if you go one on one with us. But like the Colts and Houston showed if we have to face max protect, and both did a lot of it, we wont win many of those battles. Its why I feel we are one good speed rusher away from being a strong pass rush team.

Good points Joe. Davis was on Doug and Wolf this morning and said one of their main goals is to try to get our guys matched up on a RB in pass protection. We can really only do that by bringing various forms of blitzes, but when we do, he likes our chances of winning those battles. He said in the NFL, it's very, very rare that a rusher goes unblocked. The trick is to get our guys matched up against the smaller, weaker RB's...

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Campbell has more sacks, tackles, tackles for loss, QB hurries, QB hits, passes defensed, and forced fumbles then Antonio Smith does. Also keep in mind Campbell has only played in 5 games where as Smith has played 6.

Teams are staring to actually double Campbell. I have seen more and more as the season moves along. When the Cards go with a 3 man front with Campbell on the outside and Dockett playing the nose, Branch is left all alone on the other side and is partly the reason for the emergence of Branch. Teams are so worried about Dockett and Campbell in that formation that Branch is forgotten and Branch is making teams pay for it. If you notice close enough we are running that formation a lot as the season goes on.

The way you beat our front 7 is to max protect on every pass play. We can rush the passer very well if you go one on one with us. But like the Colts and Houston showed if we have to face max protect, and both did a lot of it, we wont win many of those battles. Its why I feel we are one good speed rusher away from being a strong pass rush team.

Nice post.