Turning the Page: Saints at Cardinals Game Plan

[Buckybird]

run, run & run some & pray the defense shows up!!!

 

[Lomax to Green 84]

Hopefully the ass whooping we took in New Orleans is still fresh on the minds of our players. I fully expect an emotional team come Sunday. The Saints not just beat us, they humiliated us and hopefully that fuels the fire come Sunday.

Great post K9. I agree 100% about only sending 4 players after Brees. He will kill the blitz and the Cards have shown they can't even get to the quarterback with 7 guys blitzing. Wilson has not only regressed as a coverage guy, but he has also regressed as a blitzer. I got so sick of seeing Wilson blitz last week and not get closer than 10 feet from the quarterback. Their runningbacks were blocking him without any help and absolutely destroying his progress to the quarterback.

Rush 4, drop bunches into zone coverage, prepare for the screeens, and run the ball on offense!!

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Hopefully the ass whooping we took in New Orleans is still fresh on the minds of our players. I fully expect an emotional team come Sunday. The Saints not just beat us, they humiliated us and hopefully that fuels the fire come Sunday.

Great post K9. I agree 100% about only sending 4 players after Brees. He will kill the blitz and the Cards have shown they can't even get to the quarterback with 7 guys blitzing. Wilson has not only regressed as a coverage guy, but he has also regressed as a blitzer. I got so sick of seeing Wilson blitz last week and not get closer than 10 feet from the quarterback. Their runningbacks were blocking him without any help and absolutely destroying his progress to the quarterback.

Rush 4, drop bunches into zone coverage, prepare for the screeens, and run the ball on offense!!

Blitz vs zone and I will take the blitz 90% of the time. You don't send 7 when they are in a 4WR set, but you bring men. I'm much more worried about giving Brees 5 seconds to throw and leaving him upright and untouched all game long than dropping 7 in coverage and hoping they can make something happen. In a blitz, you are forcing the QB and a offense out of a comfort zone. No QB in this league likes to get beat up.

I'll take the route where we give the defense some help and not rely on 4 men bringing the rush and expecting them to do their job. (They haven't so far)

 

[Duckjake]

Blitz vs zone and I will take the blitz 90% of the time. You don't send 7 when they are in a 4WR set, but you bring men. I'm much more worried about giving Brees 5 seconds to throw and leaving him upright and untouched all game long than dropping 7 in coverage and hoping they can make something happen. In a blitz, you are forcing the QB and a offense out of a comfort zone. No QB in this league likes to get beat up.

I'll take the route where we give the defense some help and not rely on 4 men bringing the rush and expecting them to do their job. (They haven't so far)

They have to start bringing more guys from the outside. Most of the Cards blitzes seem to be up the middle. When they do bring Adams for instance off the edge it seems to work much better. It doesn't help any that they also have Porter too far inside, imo, as well.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

They have to start bringing more guys from the outside. Most of the Cards blitzes seem to be up the middle. When they do bring Adams for instance off the edge it seems to work much better. It doesn't help any that they also have Porter too far inside, imo, as well.

I'd like to see them do more of a double A gap blitz that has been used against us (very effective) and was pretty frequent under Pendergast. That kind of pressure forces the line confusion.

 

[JeffGollin]

I realize that this may seem far too small/simple a thing, but -

Hands up on the pass rush.

We seldom do that as much as we should.

(Teams that disrupt the passing lanes frequently throw monkey wrenches into timing routes).

Brees is 6'-0" tall. Calais is, what, 6-8?

(Hello)?

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I realize that this may seem far too small/simple a thing, but -

Hands up on the pass rush.

We seldom do that as much as we should.

(Teams that disrupt the passing lanes frequently throw monkey wrenches into timing routes).

Brees is 6'-0" tall. Calais is, what, 6-8?

(Hello)?

Your hands up severely hinders your center of gravity and balance. As soon as you have your hands up, defenders can push you around. Timing is so key to this. You shouldn't put your hands up unless you can't get to the QB on time. (I'm sure you know this)

I'm not saying that it is impossible, just difficult.

 

[Mulli]

Bump

 

[Cardiac]

Well Davis obviously had a much better game plan for today. The players also actually performed their assignments much better.

I don't know what else we would want from the Offensive game plan considering we had a rookie UDFA QB starting.