Good/Bad/Ugly

[TecnoGenius]

Brady is amazing, took him half a season to get rolling

What's crazy is OTT didn't spy Brady.  They basically left him wide open in the flat as an outlet on most plays.  Most teams purposely take Brady away as an outlet.  And certainly after seeing Brady just light everything up teams will once again plan to cover him.

The even crazier thing is MTL didn't adjust at all!  They just kept taking the foot to the nads!  Thorpe brain toot?

[TecnoGenius]

Only when they play 3 man D-line, which I believe is less than 30% of snaps.

Yes!  I don't know why people are getting mad that we are playing 3 man pass rush.  Because we're not!  I literally see it a couple/few times a game.  This isn't 2024 where every 2nd & medium/long is 3 man.

We are now very picky as to when we haul out the 3 man.

And we're not blitzing a ton either.  We have gone very vanilla 4-man pass rush this season, regardless of down & distance.

I for one think it's a good thing!  Especially when it works...

[TecnoGenius]

Regurgitated complaint which is not relevant to this game, the interior of the D-line did pretty well considering Theis is a handful to bring down, they held the Als to 60 yds. on 15 carries which is dam* good.

Theis may be slippery, but MTL is NOT a running team this season.  STE+rookie is a weeeeaaaak RB corps.  Only TOR might be weaker in talent.

You're right that our DL (and 7 and DBs) have been good against the run.  We seem fine with giving up the 3-5Y runs, don't seem to try the behind-LoS stops, or at line stuffs like most teams do.  And I think our plan works because most teams eventually stop trying to run against us, or they pare it back.  You'd think 5Y every run would be enough... but it seems not, because they can't keep it up.

[TecnoGenius]

Parker failed at Safety, Allen is better physically suited to the position but lacks knowledge and experience.

Allen is more physically suited to be Loffler/BA37.  But I'm not sure we were trying to have Parker be them.  We may (may!) have been trying to use Parker as more of a Dequoy.  Not full Dequoy, but still a bit freer to roam and be more of a pass disruptor than a run-punisher.

I think Parker is more speed and nose than beef and wood.  Doubly so if he's now stamped with the big "injury prone".

[TecnoGenius]

BAD

DL & front-7 pass rush.  We were pretty ineffective against MTL's OL.  Are they really that good?  Is our pass rush success entirely dependent on the OL quality?  We can't find a way to dent the good ones?

We did do well with batdowns, so maybe to some degree we "gave up" trying to dent that line.  But we certainly weren't getting the big heat on the QB like we did against OTT!!  Blitzes weren't doing much either.

We have to find ways to get through the top OLs at least a few times a game, or it may be a long season.