Underwood cut???

[Guiness]

If we had a crappy front 4 like we did in years past it wouldn't matter how we blitzed. Teams would just protect with five and then the RB's would get the blitzers becasue they wouldn't be focusing in the DL. The way it stands now the extra protection has to be focused on stopping Jenkins, Kampman, Jolly, Williams and KGB. They get beat over and over and eventually they stand there before the snap planning on how they are going to stop Jenkins. Then, a LB sneaks in and the RB is so focused on stopping what beat him the play before that he misses the LB and we get a sack that looks like a confusion sack but it's really just a team dominace sack.

+1

Generating pressure with those front four opens up so much more. Kamp and Jenkins creating pressure from the edges, and all of a sudden our DT's (whoever they happen to be) are collapsing the pocket, and a lot of other stuff starts to happen pretty quickly.

You can't put out a bunch of cruddy talent and expect to get away with a bunch of blitzes. You have to have talent and then everything you do can be misconstrude as genius when it's really just dominace.

We saw that in spades the year Slowik ran things...I remember them bragging about bringing some sort of a blitz on like 60% of the plays at the beginning of the season, and thinking 'oh shit'

[Lurker64]

New England won the super bowls running a 3-4.

Well, actually they won superbowls running "Bellichick's crazy defensive scheme" which is a base 3-4 but morphs into things as crazy as 0-7-4 fronts. It's not really a typical example of the scheme or a defense that really anybody else could emulate.