Without the blitz, there is no pressure. With the blitz, you need at least one shut down corner; currently he is not on the Ravens. Both corners are best at running deep, keeping up with speed receivers who do not use a double move…. These two games are not a fluke….

Until or unless the defensive line generates pressure without the need to run six or seven, these games will be a shoot out against good offenses.This defensive line is old, 10th season for Gregg, 13th for Pryce. Behind them, young players, untested, not used to the varying schemes. So far, when they have played, they have been out of position on pass plays, taking the wrong lanes, which bottles things up and prevents a blizter from getting in clean.

Same for the linebackers, Ray and then what? Players in the system a while, but, take one step the wrong way because of the wrong key, common among young players, and you get a first play 80 yard touchdown as we saw last night in Indi… If they do not take the proper drop, or are too slow in dropping back, an easy pass over the middle, down the seam, a running back running free on a swing pass for 89 yards or so….

There is a reason Fabian was bounced from Oakland, Oakland! He is undisciplined, same for Foxworth, who is on this third team. Now both are young, may get better as the season unfolds.
Gooden and McClain both have been held back in camp the past two years because they couldn’t understand the schemes, now they are thrust into the starting roll or getting far more snaps and at important parts of the games.

So yes, we should expect shoot outs against good offenses, but there is far more that goes into why than just the corners and I haven’t begun to start on the safeties, hint, Ed Reed take a seat that neck is holding him back, big time….