Belichick Defensive Scheme (Warning Football talk)

Houhusky said:
BleachedAnusDawg said:
TheHB said:
NookTunnelSyndrome said:
Not sure they will run the same D @ UW, Fisch @ Zona had attacking defenses, except the UW game, where they went 5-6 DB’s. Plus the college game has a lot more mobile QB’s in the offensive game plan. I hope Stevie B ramps up the pressure and gets after teams.
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New England defense wasn’t very good at pressuring the QB.
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Are you saying this in general, or referring to pressure from a 4-man front or via the blitz? I ask because I think the defense for NE likely had to play some situational stuff because their offense was so bad. If they got behind on the scoreboard that team had no chance of mounting a comeback.
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The Belichick defense generally wants to create QB pressure/hurries from pretty basic 4-5 man rushes, they will sometimes line up in a 5-0 front to cover each lineman to limit double teams and make protection assignments more difficult, they will T/E or Pirate stunt bringing their more athletic Edge guys inside on obvious passing downs and flush QBs out of the pocket. Also the iLB has limited coverage assignment and wants to be attacking run gaps so when the Belichick defense wants to bring an extra guy its often the iLB.
I think the Bruener could thrive in the Belichick scheme as a sure tackling aggressive iLB attacking the run and blitzing. Although the Pats iLB are more like 6'2" 250 instead of Bruener at 225lbs.

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The Belichick defense doesn't want to blitz at a high rate and blitz rate isn't typically correlated with sacks or pressures in the NFL.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1706299870011674939
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That was kind of my point too in that NE hasn’t spent a ton of draft capital or FA money on their front 7 for awhile. The highest draft picks of guys were the 3rd and 4th round.

It would have been ideal to have Noah Carter but getting a couple of AZ transfers to bolster the pass rush and Kaufusi likely getting a couple of stud pass rushers in the 2025 will go a long way towards amping up the pressure without having to blitz often in the future.
 
The defense is going to be better than Morrell's and the better side of the ball, at least to start the year.
Johnny fucking Nansen didn't just suddenly do it on his own.
 
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