what I expect from Williams

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  • August 4, 2014 at 6:48 pm #3276
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    Here’s what I hope for and more or less expect from Williams.

    I have heard that he is creative and likes to adapt to players while fielding aggressive schemes. That’s good.

    If it’s true, then he will adapt to the fact that, as he has said, he has never had a DL this disruptive on its own. I would question the assumption that he will blitz as often as he has in the past.

    What I hope he WILL DO is to use rotating and shifting deployments to drive OCs and QBs mad:

    – Always have at least one LB or DB threatening the blitz.
    – Send the blitz occasionally, often enough to keep the QB guessing.
    – Most of the time, take advantage of the luxury of trusting your DL to get good pressure and deploy the other 7 to stress the opponent’s receivers.
    – Alternate between press and disguised, shifting coverages to …
    * force QBs to spend a precious extra second reading after the snap and …
    * take away quick reads and throws thereby …
    * giving the DL a chance to get to the QB.

    I will be disappointed if he blitzes getting off the bus. Our DL doesn’t need that.

    I will be happy if he deploys creative, bewildering, shifting, rotating coverages which work with the DL pass rush to stress and disrupt pass offenses.

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    August 5, 2014 at 1:20 am #3322
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    rfl wrote:

    I will be disappointed if he blitzes getting off the bus. Our DL doesn’t need that.

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    -always have at least one LB or DB threatening the blitz.
    – Send the blitz occasionally, often enough to keep the QB guessing.

    This one is hard to get a read on. He will blitz probably more than we have seen before from this…or come to think of it, most Rams defenses. According to one camp report, he already has blitzed 2 LBs at once. So if I had to bet, I would say he blitzes more than you expect, or hope.

    Now that I am on the subject, it reminds me how much he blitzed in New Orleans. This isn’t part of a “what will he do with the Rams” discussion, because the New Orleans situation was over the top and desperate. The percentage of sacks going to non-DL there was preposterously high. According to a quick tally, in 2011, his last year there, 47% of the sacks were made by back 7 players, LBs and DBs…but then the teams as a whole only got 33 sacks. (That means the entire 2011 Saints DL combined did not get as many sacks as Quinn did last year by himself.) Percentage of total sacks doesn’t tell you what percentage they actually blitzed, of course, but that high a number tells you something.

    August 5, 2014 at 1:34 pm #3350
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    This one is hard to get a read on. He will blitz probably more than we have seen before from this…or come to think of it, most Rams defenses. According to one camp report, he already has blitzed 2 LBs at once.

    Well, this isn’t necessarily contrary to my thinking.

    In practice, acclimating the whole squad to his new approach, he of course will rehearse all the blitzing options.

    And, I am actually HOPING that he almost continuously SHOWS BLITZ, and goes through with it often enough to make it seem a constant threat.

    However, the bulk of the time I hope he takes advantage of our rare DL capability and uses extra numbers to help shore up the secondary as well as taking away early reads.

    I really don’t know that much about defense. But I think that the key to our defense reaching its potential is challenging the quick reads and protecting the young secondary from getting burned. I don’t think a heavy percentage of blitzes will accomplish that.

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    August 5, 2014 at 3:25 pm #3352
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    I think G. Williams is set up to be coach of the year.
    He’s got the personnel to have a ferocious defense.
    I’ll be disappointed if they are not top five in
    every category (barring injuries, of course)

    I pity any QB that has a third and long
    against this group.

    I assume we are gonna see a lot
    of roll-outs against the Rams this year.
    Seattle and SF can do that with
    their mobile QBs.

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