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MamaRAMa
But wait... didn't Morris change up the defense about midway through last season? Seems to me he did. It was right after a blow-up with Ramsey on the sideline during... can't remember which game. After that, things improved but now it looks like he's right back to the same old same old.
Yes, Mama, he did! I was about to post the same thing. When he quit giving that 10-12 yard cushion and brought the CB's up, playing more man and sometimes playing man out of a zone look, and had the linebackers plugging gaps, i.e playing more aggressively to give the O something more to worry about than neutralizing Donald, we started winning the tough gams down the stretch.
I also recall Ramsey getting in Raheem's face (and McVay reportedly meeting with Raheem) and forcing the change. Now we hear Ramsey saying the Bills were picking away at the soft edges of the zone schemes. He also said in his interview that he hoped they would have played more man. Ramsey took much of the heat for poor play when he was doing his job in that scheme Thursday night.
I was hoping for aggressive secondary play and LB blitzes with Wagner and Jones added to the rush pre-game, and I thought I'd see it. We all know what we saw instead.
