Aaron Glenn Put The Squeeze On Cardinals

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00:00I don't know, I have PTSD sometimes still,

00:02maybe from a couple years ago

00:03that every time we were man coverage,

00:05somebody would be wide open by like 10 yards.

00:07So now I look up and I'm like, okay, it's man coverage.

00:09Like, you know, let's just stay close.

00:11But no, that's what Aaron Glenn wants to do.

00:14Dan Campbell told me after the game,

00:15they wanna be a man-to-man team.

00:18You got a new secondary, right?

00:20These guys haven't played a ton together yet

00:23and some young players in there as well.

00:24So I think that they probably needed to see it

00:27throughout the first couple of games,

00:29but yesterday was, I mean, it was really,

00:33you're up two scores and you're looking and you're saying,

00:35okay, how are they gonna adjust?

00:36Are they gonna play more?

00:37You know, bend, don't break, zone coverage,

00:39keep everything in front of them.

00:40And they just kept running tight man-to-man coverage

00:43and it was outstanding.

00:45I mean, it was really good.

00:46And you had times before Branch went out

00:48where they were doing a good job mixing up,

00:50hey, he's gonna drop underneath

00:52or he's gonna be over the top.

00:53Kirby's dropping a little outside leverage,

00:56inside leverage, you know?

00:57So they were able to play with those guys

00:59and put them in different positions

01:00to really confuse Kyler Murray.

01:01I mean, it got to a point where he was just heaving up,

01:04you know, 50-50 balls there at the end of the game.

01:06And at interception, you know, I think it was just,

01:08hey, we're just gonna try to take a shot.

01:10And Kyler Murray, that's the first time

01:13he's really looked like that this year.

01:14I mean, you watch those first two games against Buffalo

01:17and last week against the Rams, man,

01:19he looked like one of the top quarterbacks in the league.

01:22Those looks weren't available on Xbox.

01:23No, well, that's a good point.

01:27Well, maybe he put down the Xbox controller,

01:29but maybe he picked it up last week.

01:31No, I think the coverage was just,

01:32it was super sticky, the guys were physical,

01:35and the refs let him play a little bit.

01:37There were probably a couple more where, you know,

01:38they were giving both guys the benefit of the doubt,

01:40but that's the defense they want to play.

01:43When you look at what they've been able to do

01:46in man coverage, how much better is that man coverage

01:50when your quarterback doesn't have a long time to throw?

01:54I mean, that's part of it as well.

01:55No, that's, yeah, that was just popped

01:57in the back of my mind in the pass rush.

01:59You know, I think that has probably changed

02:03what Aaron Glenn wants to do schematically as well.

02:05It's been three games in a row, and, you know, I know.

02:08He doesn't have to bring an extra rush

02:09or to get pressure.

02:10Right, you can send four-man rush,

02:12and even when you do send six-man rush,

02:13you trust your guys are holding up

02:15because they're holding up against four-man rush.

02:17But yeah, that's been, I think that's changed as well.

02:19I think we saw week one,

02:20it was kind of a lot of soft zone coverage,

02:22and hey, we like our pass rush, but we got to see it,

02:25and then you go out, you know,

02:2620-some pressures against Stafford

02:28and the five sacks last week.

02:30I think that's Aaron Glenn saying,

02:31you know what, I believe in this pass rush.

02:33We're going up against another, you know, backup tackle,

02:37you know, so we trust that Aiden Hutchinson's

02:38going to be able to be a game wrecker again,

02:40which he had a lot of really nice rushes yesterday,

02:43but again, the ball was coming out pretty quick.

02:45But yeah, I think a big part of that, too,

02:47is we're probably not going to have to cover

02:49longer than three seconds, right?

02:52So we can play a little bit tighter

02:54to the line of scrimmage.

02:55We can take chances, maybe jumping some routes

02:57and getting our hands on the ball,

02:59and maybe creating some of those, you know,

03:02tip balls and interceptions.

03:04And change that to the first drive.

03:06I mean, the first drive,

03:07Kyler Murray was buying a lot of time,

03:09and they were running a lot of play action

03:11and a lot of seven-man protection,

03:12so the pass rush wasn't great.

03:13Even the touchdown, I think, Kyler Murray threw was,

03:16you know, he was kind of drifting,

03:17drifting, drifting back there forever.

03:19But the way that you were able to stop the run,

03:21the way you were able to get up two scores,

03:24that's going to be the design for this defense

03:27to have a lot of success.

03:28Just release the pass rushers,

03:29let your secondaries play tight man-to-man coverage,

03:33and try to get a takeaway,

03:34which turned out to be a huge play in that game.

03:36And there's also one less guy in the routes,

03:39because you're taking a tight end,

03:41a wide receiver, or a running back,

03:43to chip or to block Aiden Hutchinson

03:46along with that tackle,

03:47so you don't have as many guys

03:49that you have to cover down the field.

03:50Yeah, no, that's a good point.

03:51I think the pass rush is legit,

03:52and, you know, Aiden Hutchinson certainly,

03:56I mean, it's three straight weeks

03:58where you're not playing any all-pro tackles,

04:00but you know what, that's what you're supposed to do.

04:02I mean, if you're a game record,

04:03you're a dominant player,

04:04you're supposed to dominate against backups.

04:06So he's doing what he's supposed to do.

04:08And Seattle coming in next week,

04:10I didn't get a chance to watch their game yesterday,

04:12but, you know, that's an O-line

04:15that kind of gave them a little bit of trouble last year.

04:18I think if they allow Seattle to run the ball

04:21and getting those bootlegs and the play actions

04:23that has been killing the Lions the last couple years,

04:25then, you know, you're gonna have some trouble.

04:27But if you continue to stop the run

04:29and then just release these guys a third down

04:31and late in the game, if you're up two scores, man,

04:33like they're gonna win a lot of games like that.

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