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Optimus Walken said

my only concern is the defense. i don't expect drew to have another game like that and i think the run game will find its feet.. no pun intended. we had some drops too (one leading to the first INT) but overall we still moved the ball well enough to score 30+. i don't see the offense shooting itself in the foot for the entire season.

but our defense.. when they aren't consistently hitting the other QB or generating turnovers.. appears to be very below-average. i see missed tackles and blown coverages a lot more than i should. and a big part of this is blitzing a bunch of people only to not come anywhere close to making their QB uncomfortable. GW has to find another way to get our guys into the backfield again.

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I totally agree. As far as the defense, I wonder if the signing of Rodgers and Franklin have back fired on the defense. Rogers just isn't doing much as a pass rusher and Franklin is never going to be a pass rushers. That doesn't seem to fit into William's scheme and I think it might be hurting the blitz packages. When we had guys in the middle who would penetrate, it force QBs outside and/or forced the RB into the hole to block the DT. That left the blitzers with open shots at the QB and we are not getting that this year. Of course, it's also possible that they have just adjusted the blocking to our blitz packages, but I'm not football savy enough to make that call. That being said, they did destroy Cutler with the pressure, so any given game they may come out and do that again. And, when they do, we are totally unstoppable.