Zone blocking scheme outdated?

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by Mike

Lance Z had some great insight this AM on why we had so many issues Sunday. Part of it was disguising who the Mike LB was, and showing overloads to a different side of the line, causing the protections to slide towards the overload, then bringing the blitzers who were playing games from the other side.

They've already covered some of that in other places, TV spots I've seen this week. The thing is this is nothing new or innovative for a D, certainly not
the 3-4s which are known for these kinds of unconventional schemes.
Jeez, Kubiak has been in this league forever and he has assistants who've been around much longer. Gibbs is a real old-timer. None of that stuff should
surprise or confuse them.
I'm still completed mystified how any team could have caught the Texans offense with theirs pants down on this deal ?

[mussop]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

They've already covered some of that in other places, TV spots I've seen this week. The thing is this is nothing new or innovative for a D, certainly not
the 3-4s which are known for these kinds of unconventional schemes.
Jeez, Kubiak has been in this league forever and he has assistants who've been around much longer. Gibbs is a real old-timer. None of that stuff should
surprise or confuse them.
I'm still completed mystified how any team could have caught the Texans offense with theirs pants down on this deal ?

Mee too! Wish we could catch some teams with some of this trickery.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

They've already covered some of that in other places, TV spots I've seen this week. The thing is this is nothing new or innovative for a D, certainly not
the 3-4s which are known for these kinds of unconventional schemes.
Jeez, Kubiak has been in this league forever and he has assistants who've been around much longer. Gibbs is a real old-timer. None of that stuff should
surprise or confuse them.
I'm still completed mystified how any team could have caught the Texans offense with theirs pants down on this deal ?

I'm not saying there is an excuse for what the Texans did. They should have known exactly what was going to happen after what Rex did to them with the Ravens.

[Fonz the Boss]

The reason why we cannot blitz as much as the Jets is because we dont have a secondary that can stay on an island playing cover 1 on receivers. Frank Bush tried blitzing Sanchez on almost every third down and you saw what happened. That is why the Richard Smith schemes involved little to no blitzing. He knew he didnt have the defensive personnel for the more complex and exotic blitz packages.

[papabear]

Originally Posted by Fonz the Boss

The reason why we cannot blitz as much as the Jets is because we dont have a secondary that can stay on an island playing cover 1 on receivers. Frank Bush tried blitzing Sanchez on almost every third down and you saw what happened. That is why the Richard Smith schemes involved little to no blitzing. He knew he didnt have the defensive personnel for the more complex and exotic blitz packages.

Richard Smith also showed very little imagination in his blitzes...for the most part if a LB walked up to the line and showed a blitz that's exactly where it was coming from. Not really trying to defend the secondary, because it's a problem too, but the blitzes we bring generally didn't get there either. There's no such thing as a secondary that can maintain coverage if the QB is given enough time. There were a few times when one man got pressure, but because everyone else got stonewalled there was plenty of room for Sanchez to maneuver away from it.