Green Bay=1990s 49ers?

[ATLfanatic]

Forget the Eagles, who also have our number, but the way we got beat down last night reminded of the constant beatdowns we endured during the 90s against the 49ers. Both implore a West Coast-style offense that relies on a mobile QB who is accurate (Steve Young, who Rodgers greatly reminds me of right now), a subpar running game (although the 49ers were better at that) and receivers who can run routes and produce YAC.

We didn't figure out the 49ers until we had a D-LINE as a whole who could get after the passer. That's the difference between 1998 and this year; every D-lineman had at least 4.5 sacks (Travis Hall DT 4.5, Shane Dronett DT 6.5, Chuck Smith (our Abraham back then) DE 8.5 and Lester Archambeau DE 10 sacks) whereas this year we only had one, ONE person over 4.5 sacks and that was Abraham with 13.

It's easy for a defense to defend your pass rush when you only have one guy who can get it done. Yes Babineaux had 4 sacks and I'm really knocking him that much because he HAS made plays this season, but we need another pass rushing DE ala-Archambeau and another DT who can not only stop the run like Peters and Walker can but can also get after the passer. D-line depth should be addressed tremendously this offseason.

Just look at the Giants when they won the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. They didn't have the best secondary by any means, at times vulnerable during the regular season, but they led the league in sacks and were able to neutralize the most powerful offense in NFL history. I'm not calling the Packers the New England Patriots of 2007, but with teams like @Indy, @the Texans, Philly again, Saints twice, Green Bay, who can all pass the ball, on our schedule next year (not to mention the rest of the schedule which IMO will have no cakewalks [JAX, TEN, @CHI, @SEA, @DET, MIN, TB 2x] besides Carolina, but you never know), we need to get this fixed ASAP or there will be no playoffs next year

[nativefalcon]

Well good thing about Jerry and Peters, they will be better next year, could say the same about Bierman, if he gained another 10 pounds of muscle, but we need 2 Vet DEs, why I wished we grabbed peppers when we had the chance. Draft Pic DEs are worst then WRs on missing, JA98 should have been a DT not a DE. One thing I think is happering our d-line is experience, the contstant rotation of players in and out and watcing other teams, you start getting sacks after figuring your opponent out , when your a young player constantley going IN and OUT, screws with you. Abe can deal with it because it helps him and he knows what to do, the younger players, need to be left in for experience, the experiment should be discontinued except for Abe, IF he comes back .

[Drathdon]

We did beat that team in week 12. It's hardly the Falcons-49ers consistent beatdowns.

[ATLfanatic]

(01-16-2011 02:14 PM)Drathdon Wrote:  We did beat that team in week 12. It's hardly the Falcons-49ers consistent beatdowns.

Yes we did beat them, but if you look at that last drive Green Bay had in that game in week 12, they saw that as a way to further exploit the Falcon defense and applied it from the very beginning this game and we never adjusted or didn't have the personnel to adjust. They came in with a plan to just eat up clock taking with the D gives you all the way up the field like they did the last drive of the week 12 game. It was a common theme for all their drives and never had to punt. Either blitz and get beaten by quick throws and elusiveness, or rush 3 or 4 and get picked apart up the field. Like I said, the only way to defend what they were able to do is to draft pass rushing D-linemen. They couldn't run the ball effectively at all so we were able to get them in a lot of 3rd and 5 or longer conversions, but no pass rush gives a QB like Rodgers with the accuracy and mobility to scramble and pick up the first down via the pass or running it himself. PASS RUSH