Cover1 Video: Rousseau breaks down Leonhard's new defense

[wppete]

Once again Cover 1 with the best Bills content out there. Rousseau is going to be a terror at OLB in the new scheme. 

[3rdand12]

27 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:

This gives me the feeling that our defensive players may not have been used in ways that took best advantage of their skill sets in the past…, or am I reading in…,  is it just me? 

Once I saw DJ Reader was picked up , it truly came to me.

 Jim and Brady and bb  like what they have and feel they can have success.

Going to accept that till we see anything less

 Go Bills

 Very nice link , cover 1 can be great stuff !

and Thank you

[Don Otreply]

1 minute ago, 3rdand12 said:

Once I saw DJ Reader was picked up , it truly came to me.

 Jim and Brady and bb  like what they have and feel they can have success.

Going to accept that till we see anything less

 Go Bills

 Very nice link , cover 1 can be great stuff !

and Thank you

I do agree that BB, Jim & Joe like what they have, I kinda got that feeling a little while back, as you said, we shall see, cover 1 can be really good, Turner appears to know what he is talking about, 

[Sierra Foothills]

14 minutes ago, PoundingDog said:

Eric is no ordinary fan. He played RB for St John Fisher college team, tried some coaching from California to western NY, then went on to graduate from scouting academy (a school preparing for those to pursue career of scouting), worked for NDT scouting, before he started Cover 1 into the media world. I remember he was upset that Bills turned down requests from cover 1 for Bills media credentials, but you can see from his career, he's likely to have some connections to some team front offices. When someone starts out for coaching, your first job is always breaking down film. 

 

I didn't know any of this... thanks!

 

👍

 

[MrEpsYtown]

This was an excellent episode. Really good breakdown and some cool insights from Groot

[Mikie2times]

I like his call out to stride being an advantage he couldn't really leverage as much with his previous base alignment. It's impressive when he's in space how quickly he forces the tackle out of his stance and into position. With his length and power he's going to find a lot of wobbly tackles not ready to take on his bull rush if he gets a little outside leverage. He could really break out this year. 

[colin]

14 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

I like his call out to stride being an advantage he couldn't really leverage as much with his previous base alignment. It's impressive when he's in space how quickly he forces the tackle out of his stance and into position. With his length and power he's going to find a lot of wobbly tackles not ready to take on his bull rush if he gets a little outside leverage. He could really break out this year. 

 

his pass rush win rate and number of snaps in wide alignment kinda shocked me.  we seem to lack the wiggly wonders at edge, but the oldest expression i remember when playing football was "power fits all schemes".  at the end of the day, it's a bit of a fist fight out there, and being long strong and athletic can do lots of things, and it seems like we have 4 or 5 of those guys now.

[HoofHearted]

I must have watched a different video than the rest of you. Thought it was more a fluff piece than anything super informative about JL’s scheme. I wouldn’t have expected anything else at this point though. These guys are just now going through install meetings and aren’t practicing any of this on a field yet. The whole thing is at its infancy.

 

EDIT: For the eye roll crowd - I'm not knocking the video. Just thought there was going to be more there based on the title of this thread.

Edited May 7 by HoofHearted

[eball]

23 hours ago, Don Otreply said:

This gives me the feeling that our defensive players may not have been used in ways that took best advantage of their skill sets in the past…, or am I reading in…,  is it just me? 

 

…or that our defensive schemes were easy to diagnose at the line…

 

Bye bye, Sean.

 

[Sierra Foothills]

I watched the entire 4th quarter of last December's game against the Bengals (a 39-34 win in Orchard Park). The Bills easily could have lost that game except for consecutive picks by Burrow (Benford's pick six and Epenesa catching a ball tipped by Jordan Phillips) and a 4 TD game from Josh.

 

Every single play in that 4th quarter, Rousseau lined up on the left side in a 5 technique. In the posted video Groot and Turner were specifically talking about him lining up wider to get more runway and utilize his speed more.

 

[HoofHearted]

16 minutes ago, eball said:

 

…or that our defensive schemes were easy to diagnose at the line…

 

Bye bye, Sean.

 

Not easy to diagnose at the line. Easy to diagnose post-snap, but every defense is to veteran Quarterbacks. Couple that with zero pass rush and you get what we've been watching the past few years.

[Shaw66]

15 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

I like his call out to stride being an advantage he couldn't really leverage as much with his previous base alignment. It's impressive when he's in space how quickly he forces the tackle out of his stance and into position. With his length and power he's going to find a lot of wobbly tackles not ready to take on his bull rush if he gets a little outside leverage. He could really break out this year. 

I agree. For the past couple of seasons I've marveled at seeing him run wide to pressure if not take down quarterbacks who have escaped containment. He is a big athlete who can run fast. 

 

I don't predict much of anything any more, because I simply don't know. But I think it's quite possible that a year from now we're going to conclude that McDermott spent five years of Rousseau's career playing him out of his natural position, sticking a truly special square peg into a small round hole. I believe @HappyDays is the guy who's been clamoring for years for a true difference maker on defense, and maybe the Bills have had him all along. We'll see. 

 

Just for example, it seems to me that Bernard can be an even more effective linebacker when he has an athlete like Groot playing beside him. 

[Don Otreply]

29 minutes ago, eball said:

 

…or that our defensive schemes were easy to diagnose at the line…

 

Bye bye, Sean.

 

my thoughts exactly , 😁👍

[GaryPinC]

7 hours ago, HoofHearted said:

I must have watched a different video than the rest of you. Thought it was more a fluff piece than anything super informative about JL’s scheme. I wouldn’t have expected anything else at this point though. These guys are just now going through install meetings and aren’t practicing any of this on a field yet. The whole thing is at its infancy.

 

EDIT: For the eye roll crowd - I'm not knocking the video. Just thought there was going to be more there based on the title of this thread.

I watched it more for what is changing from the old scheme in general terms.  Creativity, aggression and spacing were all discussed.  Helpful for me that's not a nuts and bolts football guy and good to hear directly from an important player.