Quote:If they want to beat our defense they're going to take shots down the field.  Over the middle at the linebacker level is where we get killed a lot.  Depending on how much Telvin Smith is in the game that may change a little but he would be on the weak side of the defensive formation.  

 

This is a our primary weakness.  The middle of the field deep is always open.  But I think we saw the solution starting in the 2nd half of the t'acks game and of course against the clowns.

 

The D-Line is playing lights out and really have been playing that way since week 1.   But the big difference I see is that when our CBs play up on the WRs, and we bring an extra rusher in obvious passing situations, we are much more successful.  A young QB like Hoyer got rattled by our pressure which caused him to be in-accurate on some of his throws to wide open receivers.  But I think you also have to give credit to Babich for getting out of that soft zone stuff our secondary has been running.  We need to stay that aggressive on the D to cover up our weakness in the deep middle of the field.  

 

When the revievers have to fight off the line of scrimmage it breaks up thier timing a little bit and they don't hit the spots the QB thinks they will be in.  On top of that when we blitz, it makes the QB react quicker.  The quicker reaction time needed during a blitz on top of playing press coverage on the WRs made a big difference this week and to a certain extent last week.

 

If we see more of this, we very well could rattle Tannehill as well.

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