Grave Digger posted:You can only blitz if you have faith the back end can cover. If you blitz with shotty coverage then you either get home and sack the QB or you get burned badly. At least with dropping 6 or 7 you know you're not getting burned deep. You rely on one of your pass rushers to get home, maybe force Ryan to hold it too long for a coverage sack if you only rush 3. What it comes down to is that GB hadn't been pressuring Ryan consistently the entire game, so you have to play conservatively and rely on dropping more in coverage. Maybe if you had Matthews, Gunter and Rollins or Randall or Shields you can take chances, but a depleted D with Goodson and Hawkins starting young have to give them help.
I could not DISAGREE more with this post if I tried.
You blitz in the final 4 minutes precisely because you have NO FAITH in your 4, 5, & 6 CBs holding a good passing attack on 4 consecutive downs.
And yes you blitz exactly because you either get home or get burned badly. If outcome 1 occurs, your D may steal a win. If outcome 2 occurs, your are down 1 point with Aaron Rodgers and a very hot O needing only a FG to win the game.
The one thing that could not happen was to allow Ryan to throw quick, basically uncontested short routes and bleed the clock out. This is of course exactly what transpired.
Rely on one of your pass rushers to get home? When Ryan was throwing short play after play? When as you state "GB hadn't been pressuring Ryan consistently the entire game?" Not bloody likely.
You know you're not getting burned deep? Exactly. You're allowing Atlanta to burn clock and depriving your best player an opportunity to win the game.
I just could not disagree any more with this purported "logic" if I tried.
All that said, this bend, bend, bend and pray you don't break has certainly been the way Dom has coached for years, so I can understand why a loyal fan would defend it.