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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 1118980, member: 185"] as someone who caught a lot of chickens back in the day from the DE position and still holds the record at their alma mater for chicken catching I can speak with some authority (love the analogy BTW). It's really simple and easy this one much as Jake has already posted. We're taught as a general rule to go full bore at full speed to get to the qb and by and large that works (for most qb's you see). However, whenever faced with this type qb you do just the opposite whenever the qb doesn't hand the ball off. Not by just standing at the line of scrimmage and watching things unfold but you go outside laterally and deep just a yard or two but never too far as to create too much of a gap between you and the DT but rather just enough to start some create some contain. And unless you're on a stunt or blitz package of some type where your role and responsibility are pre set and mandated to take a pin your ears behind your head full bore approach and try and make something happen, rather here you "hover" those couple yards in and out and wait for the qb to come toward you being certain to take more of an outside in angle and THEN you make your move and attempt after he's committed one way or another. Basically more of a read and react scenario. Sure to tackle too if you can but really more so to slow em up for (as you say) your buddies to get there too. You slow down try and shed the OL as best you can while keeping this outside in approach and hope you can get at least a hand on to slow them down for you to either start to wrap em up, as here with this type qb you're NOT worried about a Sportscenter hit driving them into the ground (they're just too elusive usually for a one on one square shot); or if not this and they still elude you enough time has gone by for others to arrive. It's hard to have a pull back like approach like this admittedly when most everything else you do in the game is about aggression and trying to disrupt things aggressively, but as the saying goes if you find yourself in a hole and the same things happening over and over again STOP digging. I'd like to think they're taught this and are just not performing. After that game fri., however, where so many other fundamentals seemed lacking I'm not so sure. [/QUOTE]

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