BDL 2017 Week 1: Wichita WoodPeckers @ Rome Eternals

[DingoLadd]

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[DingoLadd]

Wichita Woodpeckers Lineup:

QB: Palmer

RB: Fournette

WR 1: Bryant

WR 2: Decker

WR 3: Stills

TE: Olsen

LT: Osemele

LG: Glasnow

C: Kalil

RG: Glowinski

RT: Parnell

Bench:
QB Goff
RB Forte
WR Parker
TE Brate
TE Shaheen
OL Babre

Defense-

DE: Vernon

DT: Allen

DT: Peters

DE: Graham

LB: Kuechly

LB: Lee

CB Amerson

NCB Gay

FS Parker

SS Smith

CB Worley

Bench:
DE Young
DT Robinson
LB Reddick
CB Wilson
CB Melvin
CB Poole

 

 

Rome Offensive Lineup:

 

QB Eli Manning

RB  Todd  Gurley

WR Amari Cooper

WR Michael Crabtree

WR Eli Rogers

WR Corey Coleman

LT Jason  Peters

LG Jack  Mewhort

C Brandon Linder

RG Ramon Foster

RT Marcus Gilbert

 

RB Theo Riddick

RB Adrian Peterson

TE/FB OJ Howard

TE Marcedes Lewis

WR Ted Ginn  Jr

OL Justin Britt

OL Greg Robinson

QB Joe Flacco

 

Defemse

DE Carlos Dunlap

UT Malcolm  Brown

NT Michael Brockers

LEO James Harrison

LB Jerrell Freeman

LB CJ Mosely

CB  Janoris Jenkins

CB Marlon Humphrey

S  Darian Stewart

S Jahleel Addae

NB  William Jackson III

 

CB  Nevin Lawson

S  Pat Chung

CB Prince Amukamara-D

Rusher Hau’oli Kikaha

Rusher Takk McKinley

LB Alex Anzalone

INT Alan Branch

S Josh Jones

[DingoLadd]

Wichita Writeup:

Offense:
We are going to employ a balanced attack with the arm of Carson Palmer with the two headed running game of Fournette and Forte. When looking at Rome's d-line pass rush production from last year you see that it is pretty thin on true pass rushers. Of their starting D-line Dunlap is the most fearsome of the group and totalled 8 sacks last season while the others had 4.5 or fewer over the course of the 2016-2017 season. With our rebuilt o-line we look to keep Palmer upright most of the game while taking on size mismatches against Rome's secondary (6'0 and 5'10 starters in Prince and Janoris) with our outside receivers Bryant (6'2) Decker (6'3) and situationally Parker (6'3). We also look to test rookie CB Humphrey with our speed slot receiver Stills trying to take the top off the defense in order to see if the CB will release to the safeties to cover the middle. Olsen against Rome's interior of Rome's linebacking core or safety coverage will also provide a solid match up due to his size and speed at TE. To increase our play action ability we will be running the ball behind our bell cow Fournette while also adding Forte in as a receiving back on passing downs. Brate will be used in 2 TE formations when near the red zone to provide another size mismatch. 

 

Defense: 
Four man rush with situational fifth pass rusher from the LB/Safety core to provide heat on Manning to force his hand into early turnovers to our secondary. Coverage assignments: Man coverage Cooper with Amerson, Gay with Coleman and Worley with Crabtree. Lee will lock down the RB in play while Kuechly spies the center of the field and provides situational pass rush. Safety coverage over top provided Smith to provide protections against the deep ball while Parker plays up on the defense at LBer level to provide extra insurance against the run.

Having Kuechly and Lee with the combination of our offensive line provides a front six that will be tough to break in the running game so it is not expected Gurley/Peterson will not be getting much running room beyond the line of scrimmage. 

 

Rome Writeup:

 

Eli and the offensive unit welcome in a new season against a very good Wichita front seven.  To counteract this, we are opening up the offense in a four wide look and running the Manning special of a hurry up offense.  This offense allows for us to wear out the pass rushers of the Peckers and also takes a LB off the field  

 

While both Olivier Vernon and Brandon Graham are excellent pass rushers, we counteract that with one of the best tackle tandems in the league.  Both Jason Peters and Marcus Gilbert are amongst the highest rated tackles at their respective positions.  If either struggle in the passing game, expect them to get help from a chipping RB.  On the interior, Corey Peters is a solid if unspectacular tackle while Johnathan Allen has a lot of promise.  We are able to match up pretty well with a solid interior that includes Ramon Foster, who didn’t allow a single sack last regular season (through week 16, i don’t know if he did in 17, quit caring..lol).  He will mainly be one on one against Corey Peters, negating him.  That leaves Brandon Linder and Jack Mewhort to wipe out Allen.  

 

With the defensive line held in check, we will be able to abuse what we believe to be a very subpar Wichita secondary.   David Amerson and Daryl Worley are again, solid, but not spectacular.  We believe we have a big advantage there with Amari Cooper.  Cooper will line up all over the field to try to get mismatches if either of the two above mentioned corners are maintaining outside coverage.  If not, look for Corey Coleman and Eli Rogers to have big days against the Colts corners on the inside.  If PR foolishly starts William Gay and tries to tell you he’s good, let it be known that Gay recently got demoted to the fourth corner spot on the Pittsburgh depth chart behind some guy named Mike Hilton.  Gay has supposedly lost a step this training camp and will become torch city if we can get Coleman matched up against him.  In long distance we bring in Teddy Go Route to stretch the defense instead of Rogers with pass catching specialist Theo Riddick hitting the field

 

After the first few series of hurry up offense, we will be able to substitute in OJ Howard into the equation while maintaining three wide.  Howard is an A+ blocker who should help create holes for our RB’s against a tired front four.  Later in the game, the strategy will work even more in our favor as we will bring in AP and Lewis in a two TE look to help us maintain the lead and run down the clock.
 

TL/DR:  Hurry up offense to wear down DE’s, spread the field, move Cooper around to find mismatches and attack weak interior corners..  Bring in TE’s later to run on tired line with Gurley and AP.

 

Defense

 

We are a matchup nightmare for Wichita as Janoris Jenkins has shown he can shut down Dez Bryant while Jerrell Freeman has been one of, if not the top, coverage LB ranked by PFF each of the last three seasons.  Not that I believe Freeman can completely shut down Greg Olsen, but will definitely slow him down.  At the other wide out spot, PR will be starting either Eric Decker or Davante Parker.  With Amukamara likely not playing, the assignment will fall onto rookie Marlon Humphrey.  With Parker or Decker being more of the route runner types, Humphrey is the perfect physical type of corner to play against these two to throw them off their routes and disrupt the timing.  Kenny Stills is a burner who we match up with our burner in William Jackson III. This matchup will constantly have help over the top in our man coverage.  Fournette and or Brate should be staying in to block, however, if for some reason PR trusts his loline, Mosely will pick these guys up.  In two TE, Anzalone will be in charge of the RB with Mosely getting Brate.  If someone stays in.  the player responsible for their coverage has the option to blitz or play an under cover one zone

 

Unfortunately for PR, he is missing his LT this week so I will assume he will try to move Osemele to LT where he has limited playing time in his career.  In his only starts at LT, Osemele had issues stopping the pass rush.  However, he is a superb run blocker wherever he plays.  Jeremy Parnell starts for PR at right tackle and is a good player at that spot.  However, where PR is going to get destroyed is in the interior.  I have no clue what he is going to do at guard here.  Outside of Glasgow, none of the Wichita guards are for sure on top of the real life team’s pecking order on the depth chart.  If they can’t even for sure start for two of the worst offensive lines in the league (Seattle and Denver), I’m not sure how Glowinski or Barbre stand a chance in the BDL.  Glasgow, while an actual starter, is an abysmal player as well.with a lol worthy 39.1 rating on PFF last year.  Not that PFF is everything but good lord.

 

With his line banged up, PR will likely try to spread us out and run the ball.  With this in mine, we are starting Harrison on early downs to use his strength to set an edge and force Fournette inside where the aforementioned weakness of the Pecker line resides.  In the middle we have the human meat wall named Michael Brockers along with developing start Malcolm Brown.  In short yardage situations, we bring even more beef with Alan Branch coming in.   If PR decides to run 2 TE expect Anzalone to come in with us having a heavy blitz scheme with one of our LB always rushing an exterior gap.  If two TE occurs, also expect Addae to be in the box ready to take out anyone in his path with stewart playing a single high safety. None of the above even mentions how Carlos Dunlap should abuse Osemele in down and distance passing situations.

 

With our ability to get pressure against Wichita without blitzing, we should be able to maintain the Wichita offense. We will rotate in McKinley and Kikaha liberally to keep our edges fresh.   We will mix in some zones and bitzes now and then to keep Palmer guessing but mostly we feel we don’t have to do anything fancy against this offense to shut them down.  An aging QB with an abysmal interior line is not the keys for success.  It could be even worse if PR decides to start I don’t even know at LT instead of Osemele

 

TL/DR: Janoris blankets dez, expose weak guard or tackle spots.  Limit the running game and bring the pain to Palmer

[DingoLadd]

Both your QBs suck. I'm not even sure PR fielded 5 startling o-lineman, even if he did it's a mess of a line that will struggle to protect Palmer/open running lanes for Fournette. Wichita has a good defense that will keep this game from getting out of hand, But eventually rome will pull away. 

Also PR, Please include the first name of your players....

[bcb1213]

4 hours ago, DingoLadd said:

Both your QBs suck. I'm not even sure PR fielded 5 startling o-lineman, even if he did it's a mess of a line that will struggle to protect Palmer/open running lanes for Fournette. Wichita has a good defense that will keep this game from getting out of hand, But eventually rome will pull away. 

Also PR, Please include the first name of your players....

to add to this, maybe not the obvious ones if you don't want to..

 

But at least for names like allen, robinson, wilson.  ect

[PR]

4 hours ago, DingoLadd said:

Both your QBs suck. I'm not even sure PR fielded 5 startling o-lineman, even if he did it's a mess of a line that will struggle to protect Palmer/open running lanes for Fournette. Wichita has a good defense that will keep this game from getting out of hand, But eventually rome will pull away. 

Also PR, Please include the first name of your players....

Bud dont say I didnt field five starting olinemen if you cant take the time to actually look. People have a bsd habit of reading the first few responses on here and setting a mindset. Reporting falsehoods is not the way to start.

And for those wondering: They all did start.

The one thing Id like to add to this is that both of Carsons tackles in the Arz-Det games graded out in the bottom 10 this past week with replacement LT Wetzel being the worst in the NFL. Palmer doesn't have that issue here and with a lack of pass rush beyond Dunlap has all the time inbthe world in the pocket. His DTs are run defenders and NOT pass rushers.

[bcb1213]

19 minutes ago, PR said:

Bud dont say I didnt field five starting olinemen if you cant take the time to actually look. People have a bsd habit of reading the first few responses on here and setting a mindset. Reporting falsehoods is not the way to start.

And for those wondering: They all did start.

The one thing Id like to add to this is that both of Carsons tackles in the Arz-Det games graded out in the bottom 10 this past week with replacement LT Wetzel being the worst in the NFL. Palmer doesn't have that issue here and with a lack of pass rush beyond Dunlap has all the time inbthe world in the pocket. His DTs are run defenders and NOT pass rushers.

yes, here he has a guard playing tackle, and Parnell who was the 33st rated tackle in terms of pass blocking

 

and the 59th and 57th rated guards...which i said i was attacking...

[PR]

 

 

 

14 minutes ago, bcb1213 said:

yes, here he has a guard playing tackle, and Parnell who was the 33st rated tackle in terms of pass blocking

 

and the 59th and 57th rated guards...which i said i was attacking...

Every season I have to talk about Osemeles time at LT where he actually graded out great in. The Raiders even had him tabbed to play LT before Penn returned. Its not my fault you put your best pass rusher against one of the top olinemen in the league.

 

Additionally you didnt say youbwould attack the interior at all in your writeup. You in fact said you weren't even planning on blitzing. You called your a meatwall. Which is synonymous with run defending thus again no pass rush. 

[Jlash]

Man, you guys match up pretty well against each other. 

 

I think bcb is going to have a little more success spreading Wichita out, I think his OL is better and Eli should have a little more time than Palmer will have. I like Wichitas offensive weapons, but like Rome pointed out Jenkins has a very good history of getting under Bryant's skin and taking him out of his game.

I think Rome here, but BARELY. 

[bcb1213]

4 minutes ago, PR said:

 

 

 

Every season I have to talk about Osemeles time at LT where he actually graded out great in. The Raiders even had him tabbed to play LT before Penn returned. Its not my fault you put your best pass rusher against one of the top olinemen in the league.

 

Additionally you didnt say youbwould attack the interior at all in your writeup. You in fact said you weren't even planning on blitzing. You called your a meatwall. Which is synonymous with run defending thus again no pass rush. 

I laso pointed out that he only graded as a meh pass blocker in that time,

 

"Still, as noted by PFF, pass-blocking has not been Osemele’s strength, despite the relative lack of charged sacks, and putting him on the outside as the left tackle would expose his key weakness"

 

http://www.espn.com/blog/oakland-raiders/post/_/id/14263/is-kelechi-osemele-the-raiders-left-tackle-of-the-future

[PR]

10 minutes ago, bcb1213 said:

I laso pointed out that he only graded as a meh pass blocker in that time,

 

"Still, as noted by PFF, pass-blocking has not been Osemele’s strength, despite the relative lack of charged sacks, and putting him on the outside as the left tackle would expose his key weakness"

 

http://www.espn.com/blog/oakland-raiders/post/_/id/14263/is-kelechi-osemele-the-raiders-left-tackle-of-the-future

So bad thst after stsrting four games at LT he still had a 93 ranking lol

 

https://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2016/2/4/10914750/baltimore-ravens-2016-nfl-offseason-free-agent-breakdown-ol-kelechi

[bcb1213]

8 minutes ago, PR said:

So bad thst after stsrting four games at LT he still had a 93 ranking lol

 

https://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2016/2/4/10914750/baltimore-ravens-2016-nfl-offseason-free-agent-breakdown-ol-kelechi

yes, surprisiignly his OK pass blocking plus number one run blocking in 4 games wasn't enough to wreck his number 2 guard rating for 12 games for the overall grade that season

[bcb1213]

regardless, we can concentrate on one dude, or we can concentrate on how not bdl startable your guards are

[bcb1213]

ha, what is awesome is i actually saved the PFF stats from that year.  Unfortunately he didn't have enough snaps to qualify at tackle

look at that awesome -0.7 pass blocking

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FuyZjTLkbUSspiO7WwoBehmxhyRYDJLEh5MATiXIT1c/edit?usp=sharing

[PR]

33 minutes ago, bcb1213 said:

regardless, we can concentrate on one dude, or we can concentrate on how not bdl startable your guards are

They started.