The defense (MERGED)

I don't think our front four is getting any less pressure than last year. If we remember they weren't all that pressure heavy last year either. The difference is multifold though. First we haven't blitzed nearly like we did last year. Our blitzing is mainly from LBs and not from the crazy angles like last year. This is probably due to the fact that Williams realized teams were going to prepare for that. Second the lack of QB pressure puts much more pressure on the secondary which is banged up to be honest. I don't think anyone in our secondary doesn't have some injury.

The lack of QB pressure HAS TO BE SOLVED or the defense risks becoming too predictable and susceptible to good scheming. Reid will have a field day if we can't pressure McNabb.

quite honestly, the biggest thing we've yet to see is the impact that LaVar could be making as a LB/3rd down DE. I think if he eventually makes it into the rotation for longer than a play or 2, that it will make a huge difference in how other offenses prep to see the Skins D.

Teams makes adjustments. They now have 19 games of which to see how Gregg Williams makes decisions, and where pressure comes from. It's now up to G-Will to make adjustments, come from other angles, and put pressure on the QB.

If a guy like Warrick Holdman or Lemar Marshall can play shadow on Plummer, the Skins D can and will have a field day against the Shanahan West Coast. It helps that we played Seattle this past week, as their offenses are of similar molds. I think the dump passes and swing passes will be easily defended, and with Rod Smith being the only threat thus far, the Skins D will matchup extremely well against Denver.

We also have to remember that Lelie is a burner. We can't let him get behind us.

Good thing is, Plummer is HIGHLY susceptible to turnovers. We also need to be on the low side of penalties like this past week. It was great to see them play some good, turnover-free, and low penalty football.

You're right skins -- for some reason I thought it was based on total yards. My apologies. I also forgot about C. Griff and Orton INT. Two very important plays.

To be honest, besides the one play where rogers really bit hard and had to have safety cover his guy I thought he played great! I think he'll be starting before the year is out.

I just don't feel like Im watching the same team, and really the dink and dunk stuff they were throwing and getting like 6 yards after every catch is what worried me.

You're right skins -- for some reason I thought it was based on total yards. My apologies. I also forgot about C. Griff and Orton INT. Two very important plays.

To be honest, besides the one play where rogers really bit hard and had to have safety cover his guy I thought he played great! I think he'll be starting before the year is out.

I just don't feel like Im watching the same team, and really the dink and dunk stuff they were throwing and getting like 6 yards after every catch is what worried me.

Me too. I feel as though we leave the middle of the field too open. Hopefully everyone can be healthy for Denver...

Maybe, but Seattle is a good offensive team. To hold them to 17 is not a bad deal. The defense performed well enough against an accurate QB and a top flight RB - also, what happened to those Seattle WR's with supposedly rock hard hands?

Poor offensive teams will not score much on us. Good offensive teams will have to play mistake free football to score on us and even then they will probably not score a lot (over 28'ish).

If the offense keeps improving staying on the field - the defense will do its part.

Maybe, but Seattle is a good offensive team. To hold them to 17 is not a bad deal. The defense performed well enough against an accurate QB and a top flight RB - also, what happened to those Seattle WR's with supposedly rock hard hands?

Poor offensive teams will not score much on us. Good offensive teams will have to play mistake free football to score on us and even then they will probably not score a lot (over 28'ish).

If the offense keeps improving staying on the field - the defense will do its part.

Seattle is a good offensive team. Their offense was ranked 2nd coming into this game, and for most of the game we pretty much blanked them. One of their scores we handed them a 50 yd field position.

I fully anticipate the defense will make adjustments along the way.... but for the life of me, I can't figure out the LaVar thing. I'm sure we have good reasons though. But gosh we have to play this guy next week.

Hey guys, I hope the Defense stays at home next week. Plummer is one of the best at Play Action, probably second behind Peyton Manning. Plummer can kill you on the rollout. We need to make sure to contain him when he looks to be handing off to Bell or Anderson and the play goes one way and he goes another.

Holding Seattle to 17 is not surprising when you consider they were barely on the field in the first half. What worries me is the two long drives (85 & 91 yds) that the D couldn't stop in the 4th Q.

While I'm pleased with the 3-0, I've gotten greedier and want us to go 7-0 - which won't happen unless the D plays lights out football. As I said in another thread - we must use Lavar as a pass rusher - even if he doesn't get sacks, he will almost certainly attract double teams, which will free up the other D-linemen or LBs for sacks. I for one miss Ron Warner - the guy wasn't a great DE, but he always seemed to be in their backfield last year. Philip Daniels and Wynn are useless at rushing the pass.

And just think how much better this defense could be if we only had one DE who could rush the passer.