Who is excited?

Correct. You want as many big bodies in there as possible. If you want to stop a power runner, you need as many people in the box as possible. I usually stick to 4-3 and make sure my LB's don't drop into coverage.

Bear is pretty good too, but it's a safety that's coming up into the box, rather than a big LB or DL, so unless you have someone like Ronnie Lott, I don't recommend that package for stopping the power runners.

 

jon: you said you make sure your linebackers dont go into coverage...

how? with the play call?

 

Yeah, if you set them up for zone coverage, usually they will drop back on the snap of the ball. If you have them either rushing or in man coverage, they'll stay at home and prepare to tackle better.

Of course, this has it's disadvantages too if they QB audibles and sees your blitz or man coverage from the LB's... they can burn you bad on play action or a slant/flag route to the WR/TE.

Half the battle against a good offense is the correct play call, the other half is execution. You can't have one without the other. A bad play call with good execution will still get beat, as will a good play call with poor execution (ie. blitzing someone thats supposed to be in coverage, diving too much, etc).

 

yeah diving and missing can kill al defense. suggest you run into the guys instead of diving.

 

Man how do you expect to hold Ricky Williams to under 50 yrds when you cant even contain the lions?

 

but it wasnt fair because i ran the same 4 plays . 191 yards with james stewart and cory schlesinger. Eventually he gave up on the 3-4 when my rb's were destroying it. Ricky Williams will REALLY tear that up.

 

Yeah, I think Don's smack talk can officiall end now. hehe

You'll never win in this league if you can't stop the run, or at least contain it. If you're giving up huge TD runs, in the end you'll lose the game if the offensive can pull that out of the playbook whenever they want.

 

Actually it was my defense and special teams that really killed him. 2 interceptions for touchdowns and 1 kick return. Although he had 2-3 kick returns so it evened out.

 

kick returns are out of hand! argh - they have me soooo frustrated!

 

i think that the panthers just have a really good kick return team combined with donrsd looking for the holes and busting through them.

 

in my games they are out of hand.

i just cant cover kicks. its driving me nuts.

im thinking of just kicking it out of bounds, it's that bad!