Frank Bush ready to showcase his young players in the Saints game

[papabear]

I think there might be a perception problem when we hear "more aggressive". I think some people expect to see the LB's and Safeties blitzing like crazy, with 6 or 7 guys getting being sent a lot of the time....and while I would like to see more blitzing myself there's other more subtle ways to make the defense more aggressive. Like asking the D-line to fire off the ball and penetrate instead of reading the play first. That alone can make a huge difference, especially with our personnel up front. I also saw the safeties coming into the box more. It's not a blitz, but it's a little thing that could help against the run....which was at least as much of our problem last year as the pass. You can't bring pressure on third and long if your giving up 6 yards on the ground on first down.

We have always played pretty basic in the preseason under Kubiak. Gameplans can change drastically from week to week anyway in the NFL. Even if we did open up the playbook against the Saints, we could have a different gameplan vs. the Jets in week 1.

[nero THE zero]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

See that's my thought. PK mentioned earlier in this thread that Ryan let the dogs loose in the Jets very first preseason game, but everybody already knows the book on Ryan from his years in Baltimore: they know he's going to throw eveything including the kichen sink at the opposing QB.
But the season opener in Reliant will be Frank Bushs coming out party as a NFL DC, so why spoil the fun and more importantly reveal all the secrets in a meaningless preseason game ? Instead why not keep the Jets and their rookie QB guessing as much as possible ?

I understand that train of thought. But, you're working under the assumption that the gameplan for the Jets is the same as the gameplan for the Cheifs/Saints/Vikings/Bucs. It may or may not be. Maybe we'll do the whole vanilla defense preseason thing. Or, maybe we'll do different things against a Saints-type offense than we would against a Jets-type offense.

Part of being an effective defense is being good at what you do, even when the other team knows you're going to do it; our offense is a shining example of this. We shouldn't be worried that a rookie QB has tape on us when the 15 teams proceeding him will have tape on us. We just have to be good at what we do, even when the other teams knows we're doing it.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by papabear

I think there might be a perception problem when we hear "more aggressive".

I think you have defined it correctly. I do not think we are going to be a blitz happy team, but our front four is not going to be asked to read and react, they are gong to fire out and disrupt.

Finally a style of play that fits the personnel. Imagine that ?

[papabear]

Originally Posted by painekiller

Finally a style of play that fits the personnel. Imagine that ?

what crazy person thought of that silliness.