Ben Solak

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd · Sharp or Square - NFL TRAINING CAMP QUESTIONS with Ben Solak of ESPN · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

We're talking about guys who build pass rushes such that we are expecting the quarterback to move.

We're going to try to flush him a certain direction, and then we're going to be there waiting for him, right?

The Rams, before they had Garrett, they led the league in stunt rate.

They ran more stunts along the defense line than anybody in football.

And they would use verse as just a wrecking ball, right?

Verse had like a top 10 pressure rate, bottom four sack rate.

We're not trying to get sacks of Jared Burris.

We're trying to break the integrity of the pocket.

We're trying to fold and collapse one side of this pocket in so we know where the quarterback will flush.

And then we're going to have a looper follow him that way.

We're going to have a blitzer follow him that way.

He's going to be waiting for him.

So the more you scramble, the less I'm going to build a traditional four-man rush, and the more I'm going to be oriented on

expecting you to move and then containing you when we do.

We also see things like zone coverage increase when we see more scrambling quarterbacks in the league because zone coverage plays with eyes on the quarterbacks.

Once he breaks, I can see him as opposed to in man coverage.

I have my eyes on the receiver.

If that quarterback breaks the pocket, I don't know.

And all of a sudden he's across line of scrimmage is eight yards down the field before I realized anything happens.

And so styles make fights and the league kind of operates on a pendulum, right?

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