It’s not an excuse. Edmunds has a lot of responsibilities that people either seem to not understand or just ignore to make their case for why he isn’t performing. Imo to say he doesn’t impact games is pretty wild…he has a hand in almost every aspect of the defense.
I think there was confusion on who has the TE and who is responsible for the edge there, but regardless it’s just an inaccurate depiction of what occurred there re: Edmunds’ responsibilities, which has become a trope at this point.
Play you’re referring to is at the 3:35 mark. Edmunds fits in Agap for his run responsibilities and stays with RB leaking flat. That’s been his job and his cues for run/run fakes. Guy who ends up w the ball is lined up as a TE and it’s actually Milano who lets him go by biting on playaction.
*you can run the video on YouTube at .25x speed to slow it down
I think McDermott invites teams to run the ball at us a certain % of the time, his thinking being you aren't going to outscore this offense running the ball a ton.
Not sure but they should find the rep where he diagnosed the stretch immediately, posted his man and drove him backwards right into the lane. Went for a 2 yard loss or so. It was my favorite play of his yesterday.
Trubisky- feeling good about him if he had to come in and start
Singletary- looks in RB1 form
Rousseau- could be the steal of the draft if he continues to develop
Zimmer- always hustling inside, love his energy
Bass- dude can kick
He (Rousseau) looks to me to have that rangy super athletic rawness to his pass rush that Wake did…to me it’s a big compliment. I don’t think Rousseau is quite as powerful or explosive as Wake but he’s bigger and the way he took his space and attacked w a lot of upper body leverage reminded me of him, Cam Wake always looked like the best athlete of the dline when he was playing.