Saints D-Line is terrible

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said
IMHO Bresee should be a DE in somewhat of a JJ Watt Role, meanwhile Granderson is doing that despite taking more snaps at LDE, while accommodating Young at RDE.

Part of me wants to think Grantham doesn’t have the guys to do what he wants, but he’s the one who brought in this philosophy a year ago, that had us asking guys to lose weight on the DL.

He’s not developing the DL talent in a way that Nielsen did.

We don’t stack and shed anyone. Not at DL or at LB but especially at DL. I feel bad for our LBs in how often we ask them to take on a G or C 1 on 1 in the running game.

Which is fine if you’re going to be a penetrating line, but the DL isn’t disruptive in the least bit on run downs. They get stood up and attached to single blocks, while another opposing OL freely climbs and puts his 300lb body all over my 235 lb Linebacker.

It’s cray cray

IMO there is blueprint for a model dline in the nfl for containing the run. The tackles CANNOT give up leverage. I don’t care if it’s zone read, or up the A or B gaps. Penetration is important but it has to be at least a stalemate. They have to be stout. It keeps them off the backers. When our run d was good, the backers read and react and clean up and maybe punch balls out. Ends can not give up contain and squeeze the run play Inside. Sounds easy enough but u have to have the players to do it. If you can get the opposition in down and distance them comes our nascar package which have been subpar. That’s where we miss a quick twitch interior lineman like roach.