How to Defend the Option

[Packers4Glory]

Step 1: Get rid of Walden!

[Pugger]

The Ravens had a better D than we could present in the just completed playoffs. We improved by subtraction by getting rid of Walden. You have to wonder who the pro personnel guy in Indy is! Getting Bishop and Perry back will do wonders for our defense. I hope we address the D line and safety in the upcoming draft.

[pbmax]

Think Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein.

Yep, definitely non-traditional film roles for Ron. Also be careful googling.

The thing that worries me about the 49ers is not simply the read option. Its what they and other offenses that run multiple offenses can do after you make an adjustment. Its also what frustrates me about this defense. Against New England in the Flynn game, they hung with NE's Offense very well for the entire game. No amount of bubble screens, Welker dig routes or two TEs threw them off. But other teams seem to flabbergast them. See Vikings anemic offense in 2012.

The Packers seem to be slow to glom on to new ideas on defense and when you take them out of their preferred alignments and schemes they suffer and become timid.

Some of the read option and scramble stuff will be less of a threat now that they have seen the guy live. But what will be the next thing they feature? If you have mega talent on D, it might not matter what the specifics of the scheme. But if you don't, the scheme might be paramount. And I have harbored doubts about this team and its ability to execute a new scheme since before Capers.

The choice might simply be this: you need to play to your own strengths and if they means the other teams will attack a specific area, you need to have the players execute well rather than tweak the scheme. And that might be why Walden is gone more than anything. They obviously didn't want CK on the outside of the D, but he definitely got there. Perhaps Walden, despite his strengths, was a irresponsible in his assignment as Raji got with Peterson.