Should Bears pursue Maxx Crosby after the report that he's done with Raiders?
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
The great Kevin Harlan.
I just pulled through the Taco Bell drive-thru, and I've got a couple of big, nasty Supreme Burritos right here waiting to be eaten. You know, the first thing they ask you now, are you using the app? The app? No, I just want my burrito. I don't want to use an app. Bring a lot of mild sauce, because I'm going to squirt it all over the place.
Put some hot sauce on my burrito, baby.
Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Middays, 10 a.m. to 2 on The Score.
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score, and we continue our conversation with Anthony Heron. Anthony Heron is, of course, a score co-host with us, former NFL defensive player. He also works for Big Ten Network. Fox 32 was on NBC5 last night. We're happy to have him on here. We were talking about some of the defensive strategy that was used as well. Ernest Jones had a lot of really good information that he said after the game. I thought one of the biggest takeaways I had was him saying, we weren't going to devote an extra man to Drake May's running threat. That is part of the Seahawks plan. They were just going to go with what they usually do when it comes to their defensive plan. We know it changed a little because of Devin Witherspoon, for example, blitzing more.
But what do you think about that aspect of it? That they were like, all right, Drake May, run on us if you want, but it's not going to go very far.
And that's the thing that surprised me, and I wonder as Josh McDaniels looks back at it, as Mike Vrabel looks back at it, if they say, yeah, we could have allowed that to take pressure off of Drake May. He doesn't have to run for 120 yards for that to be an effective way to now be a counterbalance to that Seahawks defense because Seattle dictated terms that entire game aside from one chunk play, a big 35-yard touchdown pass that Drake May completed. Aside from that, that one Mack Hollins play, the entire game was Seattle's defense dictating terms to New England's offense. Now, conversely, New England's defense played really well, but But there were still drives where Seattle, Sam Darnold, Kenneth Walker III were able to move the football.
They're settling for field goals. So you could tell just the way the game was still in the balance, there was going to need to be some sort of a schematic counterpunch that New England could come up with. And it just really shocks me that the legs of Drake May weren't attempted more consistently to become that. For them, it was, all right, we're going to let him drop back into another predictable down and distance. Oh, well, too bad. Pass rush got home again. Or too bad, another errant pass from Drake. But when his legs are part of the formula for them, not only does it infuse some additional life and confidence in New England's offense because they have the ability to move the chains more consistently, but it can take the starch out.
Out of that pass rush. Because there's one thing to say schematically. We weren't going to over-adjust. We weren't going to have an extra defender occupied for the legs of Drake May. But when you're talking about rushing the edge, all right, DeMarcus Lawrence, you can go ahead and keep flying up the field if you want to, but you're creating a running lane for the QB now. And if Drake May begins to gash them with QB power, QB draw, QB lead, QB sweep even, he's fast enough for that, but just some sort of consistent wrinkle in the run game, using him as a runner, that to me would have been a... I'll say this, Lamar Jackson, playoff games that he's lost as he's advanced into the NFL postseason, the main issue that's been for him has been when they haven't allowed, when Baltimore hasn't made a concerted effort to keep his legs as a part of what keeps that opposing defense off balance.
If that can be your superpower, especially if you're still young enough to feature it, let that be your superpower against a fast and aggressive and quickly flowing defense like Seattle presents.
Ant Heron joining us here on Rahimi Harrison Grody.
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