Seattle Seahawks defensive line generating impressive pressure | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

Seattle Seahawks defensive line generating impressive pressure | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

We should be proud of ourselves, guys. I mean, that is some freaking talk about our style of ball. 12 is one, but that that is us. That is Seahawk football, man. One drive after another, one play after another. You guys whipped ass, guys. One, you just kept answering the belt and you close the game out when we the most. Let’s rock and roll. All right. Hit. Jay Reed, what we say we’re going to do? Play. And that’s what we did. How many sacks? A lot, guys. Seven sacks. A lot of games. Seven sacks. [Applause] That was the Seahawks locker room. Head coach Mike McDonald getting the boys fired up. Chris, each year I I find like three teams that I just find myself rooting for cuz I like the story. The Seahawks are every bit of one this year. They are, right? It’s Sam Darnold. Um, two of their players have been some of my favorites at the combine. We get to talk to all these guys over the years. JSN and Witherspoon. Loved both of them. How can you not love Witherspoon? I mean, this team just kind of has it all right now. Mike McDonald’s an awesome guy, right? I mean, just a normal, good, down to earth human being. You root for him. You know, he’s got a defensive mind. Kubiaak has a great story. Cooper Cup up there, right? You know, can he revive the career? Kenneth Walker, we’ve always been fans of his even though he hasn’t had great blocking. I’m with you. The Seahawks are a team that it’s it’s I want to root for. I really do. And their D is in the, you know, the short list. I have a crush on their defense and I can’t wait till their secondary is back healthy cuz it’s like watch the out when they are because they could be special on the defensive side of the ball. I mean, listen to these pressures from top to bottom from this defense against Jacksonville. Leonard Williams, another guy I love. Eight pressures, right? Eight pressures. Uh you had Demarcus Lawrence with eight. Byron Murphy, your guy Chris with seven. Uenna and Wosu with six. And this doesn’t even include the sacks because they had 11 sacks. Uh, you know, from PFF in this game that they chart them a little differently than the NFL. Boy Maf with five pressures. Nikki Manari the rookie with two. Yeah. Uh, Brandon Pely with two. Geron Reed with two. Drake Thomas with one. Ernest Jones with one. Basically, everybody got to eat. Yeah. That equates equates to an ass whooping is what that does, right? Everybody got theirs. I mean, it’s incredible. And they didn’t even have to blitz really. The front four was was getting there at such a rate, it was insane early in the game, right? Or not early in the game. Uh they played cover two a few times, especially in the touchdown drive the Jaguars had at the end of the first quarter and they kind of messed up their cover two and the Jags got two big plays off of it. And it was like after that they were like, “Okay, we’re not going to play cover two anymore. We like everything we’re doing. We’re just going to stop that.” Like they maybe played it a few more times. They sprinkled it in, but it became, like you said on Monday morning, a cover three type of game, right? And they were just like, “Wait, our front four is getting there, so let’s just play different versions of cover three and let our front four keep whooping ass.” And that’s what they did. You alluded to the first thing I wanted to say about them right off the bat. The big guy inside athleticism is off the charts. It’s off the charts between Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy. The fact that they can two gap or hold a gap down or disrupt through a gap and then go, “Oh, wait. It’s pass game. Let me get back there and get Russia.” That’s insane, right? That that they have that. And now you have Demarcus Lawrence coming back healthy who’s the game changer in my opinion because now it’s like, uhoh, they can win all four guys right across the row because a chain of Nusu is one of the better under the radar pass rushers there is in football, too. to where you go, man, if they rush four, one of those guys is going to win the one-on-one, one of them. And if they get five, like, it’s definitely with a creative blitz or whatever else. So, that’s what’s incredible, right? And off of that, because Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy are so freaking athletic for being 305B guys, their their ability to run stunts and twist off each other is incredible. Think about if you’re a guard and a center and you got these two guys over you and one of them kind of tries to split the middle the the two of them, right? And almost hit both of you, right? Okay, that’s a lot. But it’s a big guy hitting you like that. And usually you go, okay, yeah, there’s a dtackle going to come looping around him. He’s a dtackle. He’s slow. I’ll be able to get off him and still readjust my body. There was plays in this one where it’s like, oh man, Leonard Williams hits him and they’re like, whoa, he’s driving me two of us back. Hold on. and I’ll get over there to Byron Murphy. Oh it’s too late. He’s already there. He’s already gone. And that to me is one of the things that jumps out. The fact that they have that ability is incredible. Uh so I think those are the the first things you look at. But I do think the bottom line is that Demarcus Lawrence really changes everything and is their number one legit top tier type of pass rusher and it’s going to change the way teams have to play them altogether here going forward. And the call about stunts is an excellent one because we talked about earlier in the week how they only blitzed uh 13% of the time, which is alarmingly low, but they had ran a stunt over 32% of the time. So, it’s almost like they’re generating blitz-like pressure without sending the extra man. Definitely. And this is where I think he’s a great tendency breakdown guy. He knows which way the line’s going to work and then what stunts to use off of that that will maybe like a lot of the times in the NFL the backside left tackle he takes that D end over there but then they’ll slide the other four guys for maybe the three guys on the other side and according how do you line them up and the twist and stunt you’re talking about you can find ways to make that hard on the fouron-ree matchup and I think they’re very good at doing that. So learning knowing protections and then of course the great athleticisms they have off of that and I mean this was this was no like mystery of what happened in this football game. It was a straight up ass whooping all the times. And you heard me say I mean you know other than the Tampa 2 messups there’s nothing you can look at to go oh wow I’m a little scared here. And the fact that when they get their D back DBs back and Devin Witherspoon and Reek Woolen and all that, you go, “Oh my god.” And Julian Love, they’re going to be able to play manto man and drop certain guys underneath certain people and do stuff like that to where you go, that’s scary. Or blitz somebody even though they don’t have to because they know they can get there with the front four. That’s where I’m excited for the potential of the final Seahawks defense to see how good they can really be. And those three guys can create takeaways. That’s that’ll be a big difference. They definitely can. Seattle rightfully Trevor Lawrence though right now where it’s like hey the quarterback stood no chance the guys in front of him got killed in this game there was definitely a lot of that there’s definitely I mean as a exquarterback I sat there a bunch and went man don’t miss that holy crap that’s that’s that’s collapsing in a hurry uh but you know my not I wrote there there there’s plays right where I’m not sure what he like okay his touchdown pass in the what was that the fourth quarter to to uh Patrick Tim Patrick yep I don’t know what he’s looking at like I you’re going to see on this play they have double post to the top left there it’s that’s where you should be there’s a few plays and I’m just picking this one out for specific example because it just comes right to my head and you’ll see it more when you go to the all side the 22 view but there’s plays where I So, I’m not sure he’s he’s looking in the right place or what he’s doing. I don’t know. Did he see the safeties after the snap? They’re not there. What are we doing? Oh, maybe that wasn’t the play. That might I I’m wrong. There’s another play. The fourth quarter touchdown. That was the fourth quarter touchdown, but it wasn’t what I was thinking there. Um but but either way, yeah, there are plays and you saw where I wrote it down. I just went he has plays I don’t know what he’s looking at, what he’s thinking, or what he’s reading. And I think that goes into like why you saw Liam Con laugh under his breath when he scored the touchdown last week because he’s a little bit like that’s the chaos. This guy I just don’t know what I’m getting right now. It’s a little all over the place. It’s a great play, a great play and then it’s like wait two or three heads scratchers of like hey what what exactly did you see there? What were you doing? You know he had a play with Travis Hunter at one point in the game. He threw the double move up the right sideline. I know the play. They coach it like, you know, set up and look for the backside post for for for Travis Hunter. He never even looks at it and just throws the ball out of bounds and stays on the run. And yet the protection was for to pull up and set up and throw an aggressive football. But yeah, there’s, as we’ve kind of said every week, there’s a few plays every week where you just go, what is Trevor Lawrence doing? He doesn’t have he’s got incredible talent. He just doesn’t have the greatest natural feel, right, that you see a quarterback have, right? And I always say, people always go, “What do you mean by feel?” I go, “Really good quarterbacks go, okay, one, two, three, four, five. Okay, wait, this coverage, wait, this guy should be coming open. I know that I’m taught to like I’ve taken two hitches and I’m supposed to go to the second read, but I know in this coverage, this guy’s going to be open. I’m going to disregard what the coach tells us to do by the book and I’m going to just tap the ball one more time because we’re about to get a 25 yard game. Things like that where you Dax’s been playing like that this year. Definitely. You know, it’s the game’s not a perfect game and but yet you got to have feel in certain instances. So, I think between feel and then crash course and offense like we talked about with Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson and all of that to where he’s getting more stuff thrown at him than ever before. I think a lot of times he’s just like, I’m glad I broke the huddle and got out the play the right way. And then it’s like, wait, but yeah, now you got to look at where the safeties were to read the rest of the play. It’s not over yet, right? And so he’s he’s learning all that. But yeah, there’s a handful of plays that way. And let me on top of that just say that they’re phenomenal at at um passing off receivers. the secondary. The Seahawks are phenomenal at passing off receivers. They Mike McDonald’s from Jesse Miner School of Coaching, right? That type of thing. You talk about play zones. They know like, “Oh, this guy’s in my area. Oh, wait. Now I’m following him a little bit. Oh, he left my area. There’s my friend over there. He’s got him now. Oh, somebody’s coming into my area. I’m ready for it.” You could tell they pass things off and their eyes are in the right spots to look at that right off the bat. And that’s what I’m impressed by. But man, you talk about Shaina Nusu, Leonard Williams, Geron Reed, Byron Murphy, and then Demarcus Lawrence. I’d go, I’d put that front five with anybody in football. And then their secondary watch out. And let me just tell you the under the radar superstar right now to me. You talk about Nick Monoiri, which is like amazing at the second level, and Kobe Bryant, watch out for Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant. This is the second time I’ve watched Seattle’s defense on film and I come away for the second time going, he’s got three rockets up his ass. He is game has gone to another level. He’s kamicazi in the run game and coming downhill now to a point where I never saw that before. That was impressive. So, I just wanted to give him some love there because he really popped to me a number of times during the game. Yeah. And you look at his, you know, his transition right now. This is somebody that he’s playing all over the secondary. A lot of free safety is mostly what he played. But he’s down there in the box. He’s at nickel. But he was a corner prospect. I know. That’s why it makes it that much more impressive. It is very cool. Everybody always loves to do the like, oh, move him to safety, but to actually do it is much more difficult and he is he’s doing it at a pretty high level. His read and react are insane. Like you you see like, oh, it’s run. He sees it. He’s down in the hole like instantly. He’s amazing that way. Nickari is a freak of nature and they’re going to use him. It looks like like Hamilton and Baltimore. feels like pretty much is what it’s going to say. He knows that, which he knows that. Exactly. Right. So, that’s great there. I don’t love Seattle’s linebackers, Ernest Jones and 42 Thomas. They’re they’re we just had a linebacker conversation and I’ if I’d go, hey, if there’s one area of that defense that can be improved, that would be it. But they’re not horrible. They just don’t pop a lot is what I’m basically saying. But yeah, I’m very impressed with that Seattle defense and what it could be going forward. Yo yo homies, it’s time to watch some games. That’s right. We’re on to the NFL season here with Chris Sims Unbutton. Hit subscribe to get our weekly picks, Sunday night recaps after every game, and much, much more. Thanks for watching. Peace out, homies. Remember, subscribe. Peace out.

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