Originally Posted by leebigeztx
I'm glad someone brought this up. Since wade doesn't have that williams or ted washington type of nt,he run blitz a lot to fill the hole. Cody nor mitchell is stout enough to push the pocket or force double teams inside. So wade slant the front and basically create a 1 gap defense like the old bucs. If he had that dude, he wouldn't slant the front and would allow the front 3 to stay standard more. That's why I think john jenkins or georgia and chase thomas in the 2nd and 3rd rd would be golden.
Jenkins is the big,stout nt who actually has good movement and has a power strike against guards and centers. Chase thomas from stanford is similar to cushing. He's probably not as atheltic,but he's super smart,plays hard,and was a pass rusher. Put him inside as the force player next to cushing and now the inside triangle of jenkins-thomas-cushing is hard to penetrate. It also gives wade more blitz options.
T difference betweeen the Ravens and the Texans defense playing the Patriots was that the Ravens front 7 stayed with their gaps- the Texans shot up field alot because they were too aggressive.