GB Starting Defense?

[Brandon494]

I see nothing wrong with it as well, you get your best players on the field.

[mraynrand]

If, the injury bug stays away, would moving Mathews to the inside and going with Peppers and Perry on the outside be the best use of personnel?

Yes! Hurrah! Move Matthews around and put him together with other pass rushers! Stop wasting him against the LT all the time! Plus he can cover TEs and running backs pretty well too when needed. I'm certainly not saying he should be inside all the time, or even the majority of the time, but it shouldn't be uncommon.

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I see nothing wrong with it as well, you get your best players on the field.

but now you're not using your player to do what he does best, rush the passer

you're middle LB will blitz every now and then, but clay's best trait is as a speedy edge rusher

[Brandon494]

No one is saying to move Clay to ILB, we are saying now having Peppers we are more flexible on defense and we are discussing the different possibilities.

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oh, well, i was too lazy to look back at the last page

so, yeah

[3irty1]

Clay's a good pass rusher but clay's also a good everything. I think Perry dictates the possibilities... you've got two edges so you'll need two edge rushers for Clay to get significant time anywhere else. Peppers can be one. Perry was drafted for one reason and one reason only which is to rush the passer. So if he start reaching some of that freak potential he could demand a lot of snaps.

Of course that would require breaking his injury curse by making peace with the great spirits for whatever Indian burial mound he built his cabin on top of.

[wist43]

As I've been pointing out in talking about a 3-3 and a 4-2... you have a lot of flexibility to move people around.

The sack of Vick in the '10 playoff game came on a delayed blitz up the middle out of the 2-4. If Capers utilized the 2-4 in that way, I wouldn't bitch, but Capers has boiled the 2-4 down to a static 4 man rush, and all-but abandoning the middle the of field against the run when he plays it in run/pass situations.

On the sack of Vick, he sent Raji, Jenkins, and 3 LB's - Hawk, Walden, and Matthews, with Matthews coming on a delayed blitz from the middle of the field.

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Out of the 3-3, as I've said, you can have 6 legit pass rushers on the field. Down linemen of Peppers, Daniels, D. Jones; and LB's of Matthews, Neal, and Mulumba. If you want coverage, substitute B. Jones for Mulumba, and if you want more versatility substitute Hawk for Mulumba. But that would be my first nickel subpackage.

And the 4-2 would have Peppers, Daniesl, D. Jones, and Perry as down linemen; and Matthews along with any combo of Neal/Mulumba/Hawk/B. Jones - depending on need.

If the goal is to put as much of our front line talent on the field together - that's a much better way of approaching it than any alignment that consistently has both Hawk and Brad Jones on the field for every snap.

[mraynrand]

Clay's a good pass rusher but clay's also a good everything. I think Perry dictates the possibilities... you've got two edges so you'll need two edge rushers for Clay to get significant time anywhere else. Peppers can be one. Perry was drafted for one reason and one reason only which is to rush the passer. So if he start reaching some of that freak potential he could demand a lot of snaps.

Of course that would require breaking his injury curse by making peace with the great spirits for whatever Indian burial mound he built his cabin on top of.

Eventually, they will get him