interesting, and we've seen the evolution on both sides of the ball with us, no more Gilbert Browns, instead we have the stream lined Clark, and now Wyatt, pass rush ability first and formost, and a lber like Campbell and Walkers both with excellent coverage ability, seems we are exactly what that round table was talking about.
Offenses are combating defenses built to stop the pass, smaller DL men, coverage type lbers, so between the tackles runs are on the rise, makes sense to me, and we see that, often what looks to be a outside stretch run turns into a B gap run (power), when that works a defense has to play 8 man box, that opens up the mid tier passing or even deeper.
I still think teams want to pass, being able to consistently string together long drives running the ball in this era of officials calling so many penalty's is really difficult, success passing eliminates the 8 man box, the goal in my opinion is to force a defense to continually have to adjust to counter between both, the pass and the run
thanks APB, nice to hear this stuff spelled out, explains very well what we are seeing.
