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Shaymus McFamous's avatar

Eddie Lacy was amazing at stopping the run. He stopped all of it as soon as he got to Seattle.

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Hawkman54's avatar

Would like to see Dre play at DT/DE on one end and then Boye and the lot at the LB/LEO on the other end. Essentially having 5 people at or around the line of scrimmage on almost every play- Plus it would be nice to see Our MLB not starting so deep on most plays- I do believe that it appears Boye is developing at a decent rate, let's hope it continues.

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Mostly Lurking's avatar

I don't know if mafe's run performance against the ravens specifically is his fault. There's definitely a coaching element. The most success I've seen against a read option quarterback either your edge rusher doesn't fully commit to contain the QB and force the ball to the RB or you have your edge rusher crash down on the RB and have another LB fill the edge to take on the contain duties. The Seahawks never did this, from what I saw mafe consistently committed to the RB on runs (not sure if that's choice or design).

I would love to see more of what he's done against the rush outside of the ravens game because he was kind of set up for failure against Jackson.

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Doug's avatar

"Running at" effective pass rushers is a common thing to do and if Boye is attracting that kind of game planning by OC's it is a measure of his ascent up the star ladder. Last year Boye's run stats were better than his pressure/sack stats, and he is a sure tackler. I think the biggest concern will be determining the number to extend him when the time comes, given his trajectory.

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Thomas Stewart's avatar

While reading the article I kept thinking that we know Mafe can stop the run because we’ve seen him do it and that the coaches and coordinators have to do their jobs to help out the young fella! Then you got to that as well. I’m happy to have on the team and looking forward to his progress!

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Charlie Gage's avatar

Now I would like to see some progress from the coordinators.

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Joel's avatar

Forward progress only!

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Joel's avatar

I read somewhere that a sack leads to the failure of an offensive drive over 85% of the time. There are folks who argue pressure has more value, but since pressures are subjective and sacks are quantitative, I'm all for the sacks!

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