First thing I thought about, as well.

The thing that's better about this package, though, is that Matthews, Peppers, Neal and Perry are, in essence, just your standard 4-man front, but with four ridiculous pass rushers. And they can rush on every play, rather than having two or three of the five DT/OLBs rush on the play like they had in the psycho package.

Then again, the psycho did bring a lot more uncertainty for opposing QBs and O-lines.

Originally Posted by: Rockmolder 

This is true.
However after watching tape of the games teams adapted pretty quickly and it became less effective.

I didn't realize it but other teams use their version of Psycho.
More and more teams are now utilizing pass rush personnel groups with only 1 or 2 defensive linemen on the field.
This  was written on Dec 31,2010

Originally Posted by: wpr 

I still don't really get it. All it does is replace Mike Daniels who is our best interior rusher with Peppers who is better on the outside and not nearly as good inside as Daniels. Though as with anything if it works a couple times Ol' Dom is going to spend a game trying to make it our new base defense.

Originally Posted by: steveishere 

I still don't really get it. All it does is replace Mike Daniels who is our best interior rusher with Peppers who is better on the outside and not nearly as good inside as Daniels. Though as with anything if it works a couple times Ol' Dom is going to spend a game trying to make it our new base defense.

Originally Posted by: steveishere 

I hate the exotic defenses. They won't work game after game and play after play. They are the same as putting Peppers on the offense. It may work 10 out of 100 times but it is not not the best use of the resources at hand. This is the NFL guys you can fool the other team every once in a while but they have brains and expect crap like that when you try it all the time. They will have ways to counter your exotic schemes.

Originally Posted by: wpr 

I hate the exotic defenses. They won't work game after game and play after play. They are the same as putting Peppers on the offense. It may work 10 out of 100 times but it is not not the best use of the resources at hand. This is the NFL guys you can fool the other team every once in a while but they have brains and expect crap like that when you try it all the time. They will have ways to counter your exotic schemes.

Originally Posted by: wpr