McIntosh & Landry

[AnonEmouse]

Originally Posted by JLW428

Looking though these posts, I'm glad that everyone besides about 3 people understand how the FS position is played.

Ain't that the truth! I was reading some of this BS and nearly didn't post, but I thought what the hell.

The FS is the last line of defence. That means he has to cover the deepest threat or backup a CB or cover a designated receiver depending on his responsibility for that play. As some have correctly posted, we haven't had many deep passes against us this year - because he's such a threat. If you look at the Washington catch against Smoot, Landry had man coverage responsibility because of the blitz, hence Smoot was isolated. If you watch that play again you can see how close we got to taking down Leftwich and that's the blitz in a nutshell - when it works you hit them for a big loss, but when it doesn't you run a big risk of a deep ball being completed or a short pass being broken (because you don't have deep coverage).

Landry has roamed sideline to sideline repeatedly this season and provided support to the corners while Horton primarily played run support. How many times have you seen the opposition going underneath or sticking to out patterns to avoid the middle of the field? Answer is a lot of the time. Blache is so confident of Landry, he repeatedly puts 8 in the box and that's why we are so good against the run.

Believe me if we had the Steelers or Titans Dline, we'd be the top ranked D. We have been exposed because QB's get too much time to pass on us. And if we could contain the run with just the front 7 then we'd have a lot more INT's. You think the Titans have a better secondary than us? I'll take Landry and Horton over their two safeties any day, and I'd still pick Carlos over most other CB's in the league based on his overall play this season.

We have one problem on this defence and its called the Dline. If we could fix that right now, this thread wouldn't be here.