Seahawks,
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The Seahawks let Gus Bradley speak with Seattle-area beat reporters yesterday and a few interesting tidbits came out of the meeting.
First off, the new motto of the Seahawks defense is “Attack.”
Vagaries aside, Bradley described attacking the offense as bringing a lot of different packages at the offense “whether it’s a blitz situation, a zone pressure situation, or even if it’s a seven-man front.” He stressed that “attacking” doesn’t mean it’s going to be blitz happy.
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The Tampa two
Field Gulls mentioned this, but Bradley said that Tampa two doesn’t always mean cover two.
Maybe the perception was cover-two, but we played some eight-man stuff, we played quarters-covered, we played cover-two, we zone-pressured, we man-pressured.Bradley said he thinks he has the right personnel to fit the scheme, meaning he has speedy guys. He specifically mentioned Lofa Tatupu, then talked about also wanting big guys who are also fast, using Warren Sapp as an example.
Bradley says they are going to tweak the defense, and it sounded like they would lean more toward Tampa two.
Evaluating the players
He wouldn’t comment on what he thought needed to change on defense because they haven’t evaluated the players yet, and they were still waiting for things to happen in free agency.
He addressed the perceived lack of size:
If you see guys getting driven off the ball, I think that’s the first thing people attribute it to. They go, ‘Oh, they’re not big enough.’ But it might be just technique. It might be that they’re not getting low enough, their stance isn’t low enough, they’re not in position.He said he thinks we have good corners here and hinted at improving pressure on the quarterback.
I do know that if a quarterback’s on his back, all of a sudden that receiver isn’t as tall, you know?
