GTripp0012
10-09-2009, 05:25 PM
Tripp I have a follow-up question from the last two games/reviews. Is the Orakpo experiment at SLB something Blache is finally veering away from? Wondering if you've counted how many snaps Rak is taking at the position each game? I mean if we're a better defense when he's on the line why try to force more of the LB thing. Also there's nothing wrong w/ swapping AC and Rak at RDE.Orakpo doesn't play on 100% of the plays, but its something close to that number. Maybe 85%.
He's not playing SLB less frequently when the Redskins are in their base 4-3, but the team is in the 4-3 less frequently then it has been in the past.
Blache is probably the only defensive coordinator in the league who doesn't match his defensive personnel with the offensive personnel. It's quite common, actually, probably standard for the opponent to get into 3 WRs, and the Redskins to show a 4-3 front. Our defensive response is to back off the blitz when this happens and get into a sort of cover three defense, which more or less puts Orakpo and/or McIntosh one on one with a back in any sort of coverage scheme.
In the offseason, I previewed how our 4-3 defense could prevent major issues for teams in 3 WR sets because if your OL has to match up with 5 pass rushers, you can't really pick that up and expect to win your one on ones. But our coverage woes have cornered Blache into dropping into a cover two or cover three look, and that's more or less how the Lions beat us.
We're starting to get away from those 4-3 fronts with the Cobra and Dime formations. This puts Orakpo on the DL, and allows you to blitz Landry if you so choose. The problems are still similar: you can match up McIntosh against a back one on one and chip away at the Redskins 7 yards at a time. But the Cobra formation is a better use of our personnel, and is a more versatile formation in general. If Blache isn't going to match his personnel with the offenses personnel, going with 5 or 6 DBs allows him to stay in that formation no matter what the offensive personnel is, and stay out of terrible mismatches.
This is not really about the Orakpo experiment necessarily. Orakpo at OLB was a nice idea in theory, just like Jason Taylor at OLB was. But because of the issues in the secondary, we went from a situaiton where we expected the defense to dicate to the offense that they needed to be careful not to get their QBs hurt, to completely playing on our heels and allowing mismatches all over the field.
A full time move to a 4-2-5 base defense would fit our personnel fantastic. If we're going to be in the 4-3 at all, we've got to have good enough secondary play to blitz Orakpo as we feel fit, and still feel confident that we can win on the outside. Rogers and Hall are starting to develop as a DB tandem, but in the interim, I'd use Doughty, Moore, and Horton to try to stop opposing offenses.
He's not playing SLB less frequently when the Redskins are in their base 4-3, but the team is in the 4-3 less frequently then it has been in the past.
Blache is probably the only defensive coordinator in the league who doesn't match his defensive personnel with the offensive personnel. It's quite common, actually, probably standard for the opponent to get into 3 WRs, and the Redskins to show a 4-3 front. Our defensive response is to back off the blitz when this happens and get into a sort of cover three defense, which more or less puts Orakpo and/or McIntosh one on one with a back in any sort of coverage scheme.
In the offseason, I previewed how our 4-3 defense could prevent major issues for teams in 3 WR sets because if your OL has to match up with 5 pass rushers, you can't really pick that up and expect to win your one on ones. But our coverage woes have cornered Blache into dropping into a cover two or cover three look, and that's more or less how the Lions beat us.
We're starting to get away from those 4-3 fronts with the Cobra and Dime formations. This puts Orakpo on the DL, and allows you to blitz Landry if you so choose. The problems are still similar: you can match up McIntosh against a back one on one and chip away at the Redskins 7 yards at a time. But the Cobra formation is a better use of our personnel, and is a more versatile formation in general. If Blache isn't going to match his personnel with the offenses personnel, going with 5 or 6 DBs allows him to stay in that formation no matter what the offensive personnel is, and stay out of terrible mismatches.
This is not really about the Orakpo experiment necessarily. Orakpo at OLB was a nice idea in theory, just like Jason Taylor at OLB was. But because of the issues in the secondary, we went from a situaiton where we expected the defense to dicate to the offense that they needed to be careful not to get their QBs hurt, to completely playing on our heels and allowing mismatches all over the field.
A full time move to a 4-2-5 base defense would fit our personnel fantastic. If we're going to be in the 4-3 at all, we've got to have good enough secondary play to blitz Orakpo as we feel fit, and still feel confident that we can win on the outside. Rogers and Hall are starting to develop as a DB tandem, but in the interim, I'd use Doughty, Moore, and Horton to try to stop opposing offenses.