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Leoram
Has anyone else noticed that Staley's defense hasn't been a juggernaut with the Chargers? Didn't the Rams lose twice to the 9'ers under Staley? Could it be that the defense is designed to win in a pass happy league so they are vulnerable to running teams?

The problem is not the scheme, many teams use pattern matching and a "shell" look. It appears soft with the corners "off" but where it is agrresive is
at the break to the ball. Once the pattern is recognized.

And these days it has been determined by some coaches that not giving up chunk plays and plays over the top is more important than stopping the run with 7 in the box. So, you start out with 6 in the box versus most teams that use 11 or even 12 personnel. if they get to you then you can go to your 3-4 or 4-3

(against 49ers or Ravens or Titans who use 21 personnel you use the 3-4 or 4-3 when they use the 21)

Anyway, by having the 5-1 and one of the safeties rotating down, that is your 7th guy, but he can also serve as a pass defended if run does not "show"

if it is a pass you have 4 rushers and the LBer and one of the edges drop off and you can have 7 in coverage if you want and it allows bracketing (funneling0 which are just fancy names for double coverage---

SO, yes, it's a scheme designed for today's game, it comes from college, really. It's not you Bill Belichik NFL defense

And there are different packages---in the red zone Rams uses a lot of Tampa-2, and they did last year two, as do a lot of teams. It just works down there.

Rams like to blitz one guy on 3rd downs, sometimes 2, but not that often---not a big-time blitz team--but notice a bit more vs Tennesse.

ANyway, you nailed it. It is a pass defense

Now, vs 49ers they used the 3-4 and 4-3 every time (with a couple of exceptions) vs the 49ers 21 packages---and they ran for 3.6 yards a carry, the problem was they ran it 44 times...

and you are right, Staley and Phillips have had issues with 49ers offense



Why won't people understand that the offense scored 10 and gave up 7? and they were 3/12 on 3rd and 4th down?
they put the defense on the field forever