Oct 28, 2026 · 20 min · 10 segments
\*\*\*Second Segment\*\** The Commanders Bye Week has come and gone and Week 8 is getting closer... Logan and Grant dive into the latest mailbag and take your questions on what's going on with the…
Logan PaulsenHostBut right now, Max says, we'd love to hear you guys discuss the defensive line.
But he wants to know about the pass rush and why there hasn't been more pressure on the quarterback.
The Commanders are not only not number two in pressure rate to coincide with the Blitz, and I know you've talked about Blitzing on early downs versus third down, but they are 23rd in pressure rate.
If you look at sack rate on the season, actually getting the quarterback to the ground, the team that Blitzes the most, the Vikings, are one.
The Commanders, you've got to scroll down to number 25. they have not done a very good job pressuring the quarterback despite all of the pressures that are called, and the blitz is called by Durante Jones.
Yeah, like you said, I do think there is an element of that pressure coming on early downs more frequently, and I do think that there is some subtlety here that I think is kind of sometimes hard to observe, and I really, before kind of giving distinct credence to this, I'd like to go back and watch every single pass rush rep, but there's some times, again, where The position, the alignment, the responsibility of the rusher makes it hard to create a pressure.
Now, that's not absolving people of not creating pressures, but I do think when you look at San Francisco, like the question I alluded to there, that is a very specific type of defense.
It's kind of this Jim Schwartz, Robert Sala is known for this, this attacking four down front.
Basically, what those guys are coached to do is unlike kind of a more traditional front where we're kind of like, if I'm a three technique, I play the B gap.
But right now, Max says, we'd love to hear you guys discuss the defensive line.
But he wants to know about the pass rush and why there hasn't been more pressure on the quarterback.
The Commanders are not only not number two in pressure rate to coincide with the Blitz, and I know you've talked about Blitzing on early downs versus third down, but they are 23rd in pressure rate.
If you look at sack rate on the season, actually getting the quarterback to the ground, the team that Blitzes the most, the Vikings, are one.
The Commanders, you've got to scroll down to number 25. they have not done a very good job pressuring the quarterback despite all of the pressures that are called, and the blitz is called by Durante Jones.
Yeah, like you said, I do think there is an element of that pressure coming on early downs more frequently, and I do think that there is some subtlety here that I think is kind of sometimes hard to observe, and I really, before kind of giving distinct credence to this, I'd like to go back and watch every single pass rush rep, but there's some times, again, where The position, the alignment, the responsibility of the rusher makes it hard to create a pressure.
Now, that's not absolving people of not creating pressures, but I do think when you look at San Francisco, like the question I alluded to there, that is a very specific type of defense.
It's kind of this Jim Schwartz, Robert Sala is known for this, this attacking four down front.
Basically, what those guys are coached to do is unlike kind of a more traditional front where we're kind of like, if I'm a three technique, I play the B gap.
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