SaintsBro

Reading stuff like this about other teams' defenses always depresses me lately about our own defense. Clay Matthews' "threat of a speed rush to set Bushrod up and then beat him on an inside spin move." Seems like you never hear about our defense "taking advantage of a failed stunt pick up" and exploiting it for a sack.

I can't even remember the last time I saw one of our players do a spin move, a real rip, or some good aggressive chopping with the arms, knock an O-line guy on his butt, or LET ALONE God forbid, setting up the use of one pass-rushing move by feinting another, like Matthews was doing -- faking an offensive line out using deception, and beating the opposing O-lineman with some kind of element of surprise. Am I wrong? It just seems like there's never anything going on with our defensive players but a weak and anemic bull rush, where they just lock up and get manhandled by the other team's O-line.

I watch our defense on clips of these plays that the other team runs, like that Jamaal Charles 91-yard touchdown run -- I look at them and they look like TEXTBOOK examples, they LITERALLY look like they are from a textbook showing how a play is supposed to work -- this guy blocks that guy, this guy blocks that guy, this guy pushes this other guy out of the way, and then the running back rolls through untouched. It's not supposed to be that easy in the NFL. You could actually teach offense to little pee wee kids, using film of the Saints defense as an example of what to do.