Quote:You full of an excuses... An your football I.Q. is pretty low...I apologize for that.. Thats not cool... Lol but Our coverage guys werent that bad as you put it.. And we drafted argubly the best player in the draft and bought in Amukamara for depth... Getting consistent pressure was bad last year. And dont forget i also said LINEBACKERS! I was just giving examples of how you could create more pressure. A good example is the defense [BAD WORD REMOVED] Lebeau ran in Pittsburgh..

1.  Our cover guys last year were not good at all, outside of House.  Might they have been better with more pressure?  Yes, but I'd say there is a reason the team brought in three high profile DBs in Amukumara, Ramsey and Gipson.

 

2.  You DO realize that in order to successfully run that defense Lebeau ran in Pittsburgh for all of those years, this team would need the right personnel, don't you?.  You'd need the stud NT-the Casey Hampton or Joel Steed type.  We don't have that.  You'd also need the stud OLB-the Greg Lloyd, Kevin Green, Jason Gildon, Joey Porter, Chad Brown, and James Harrison type guys outside, as well as the stud ILBs.  We don't have nearly enough of either type to have run it successfully.  Also know that traditionally, the Steelers under Lebeau always had a stud CB and a stud S to help run that scheme (Woodson, Lake, Polamalu).  We don't have those guys here, either.  The Steelers have been drafting 3-4 personnel since the 1980s.  Had we tried running that scheme here, it would have been a recipe for disaster.

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