Tye Hill's Father

[Fred Smoot's Father]

Sunday, I will give birth to another beautiful son, Tye Hill.

On a serious note, this is one of the weaker secondaries we will face this year. Fakhir Brown is out, and they have Lenny Walls and Ron Bartell backing up Hill. OJ Atogwe at FS is vunerable. Chavous can ball.

Be interesting to see Carriker, and how it affects our run game.

Personally, calling the plays, I would come out in a TE/HB/3W package, and spread the field from the gun. You get the personnel matchup you want, and you go no-huddle early. This would counter everything we've shown in the preseason. We didn't open up like this, but v. NE in 2005, after the big play to Troy Brown and subsequent TD, we came out in the same formation. Foster caught a 20 yard stop fade on 3rd down, and we hit Proehl long down the post. That changed the flow of the whole game, and it gave Delhomme ownership of the offense for a series--which he can do at times.

I just don't see us coming out and ponding STL. I hope we can, but I'm not optimistic.

 

[magnus]

I like us spreading, especially given that we crowned a 2nd receiver who caught a grand total of, what, three balls?
I wouldn't go 'gun that much, though, and I'd still have to find a way to run the ball. But getting just Witherspoon and Tinoisamoa out there (not that Chillar is the brilliant run stopper or anything) while still holding a 6 man line is a very good matchup for us, it limits their blitz opportunities which opens our protection up, and yeah. That's a shitty defense.

I'd like to see combo routes, including stuff with twins one side, two TE on the other. Sets up looks on both sides that creat confusion and easy reads.


I wonder what happened to Haslett - OK coordinator turned promising head coach, turned crappy head coach, turned crappy coordinator.

 

[Collin]

I haven't seen them this preseason, but the box scores suggest that you may be right as St. Louis' first team defense had much more trouble with the pass than the run, although I presume that they were stacking the box anyway. I still haven't seen anything to suggest that we can line up and run over people in short yardage, so we're definitely going to need to pass effectively.

 

[magnus]

some teams, us included, run a lot more man to evaluate, which would bring a man up more often. Not sure if that's the case specifically here, but could be.

Either way, they do kinda blow so I don't see that changing.

 

[Jaz]

I think it'll be interesting to see how Kalil holds up against Carriker and Glover. From what I've read, Carriker has been beastly so far.

 

[Collin]

I don't think it will be that much of an issue. Carriker is a high effort, no mistakes guy but not someone with the physical skills or size to dominate at the point of attack. He's playing out of position at DT, but the Rams need him to.

 

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