So is this the new excuse? So we’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that the Broncos will have no sacks this year as long as the other team gets the ball out quick? How on earth do we stop this amazing dink and dunk quick pass scheme? I mean, you’d think a guy who has spent 30+ years as a DC would have an answer...Andrew Mason @MaseDenver 8m
Thirteen of Mitchell Trubisky’s 27 passes against the Broncos on Sunday were out in fewer than 2.0 seconds. Over the course of Weeks 1 and 2, 26 of 53 passes against the Broncos were released in fewer than 2.0 seconds
The answer is, stop playing off and giving up everything underneath 5-8 yards at a time. Jam the receivers and disrupt the short route timing to force the QB to hold the ball a little longer so the pass rush is more effective. I mean shit, it ain’t rocket science. Oh, maybe put our best pass rushers on the field on obvious passing downs and actually have them pass rush vice drop in coverage. If we are bringing a 4 man rush on passing downs, it should be some combination of Miller, Chubb, Harris, Walker, Jones, and Reed. Blitzing occasionally is very effective too. Simmons had a clean rush at Trubisky that forced an incompletion on a well timed blitz yesterday. Wolfe and Gotsis are not penetrators and get stood up and the point of attack too often. Yeah they’re good vs the run, not the pass.
Our problems are scheme oriented except for ILB. More scheme oriented than personnel oriented, although they need to get that CB they got from NE up to speed quickly to replace Yiadom. This is easily fixable if we’re willing to fix it. We have almost as much talent as the Bears defense and they didn’t have a problem getting pressure and I didn’t see Mack dropping in coverage too often.
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