Examining how NFL defenses are using pressure packages in 2021 with Chris Vasseur
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays welcomes on defensive guru Chris Vasseur (aka Coach Vass) to discuss pressure packages in 2021. They examine the Panthers’ defense and how they are using pressure this season. Plus, what are teams doing to keep themselves protected while being aggressive? How do they decide to fit pressure into their philosophy as a defense? They dive into those questions and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.3 | The |
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| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show is Visa, a network working for everyone. Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:23.8 | Today's Wednesday, September 29th. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:27.5 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:29.2 | Mitchell Schwartz is on vacation. |
| 0:31.2 | He's taking the week off. |
| 0:32.6 | He will be back next week, but we have a very exciting show in its place. I am so excited to welcome. |
| 0:40.5 | Somebody I have a meeting to have on for a while. It's been way too long. Chris Vasser, |
| 0:45.4 | Coach Vass on Twitter. How are you doing, buddy? I'm good, but let's lower the expectations here. |
| 0:50.4 | There's a lot of, we got a lot of pressure on me now. We, I've been meaning to do this. |
| 0:55.4 | We've been chatting about it for forever. |
| 0:57.3 | And I thought this was the perfect topic to do this on because I want to use these Wednesday shows to zoom out a little bit. |
| 1:04.5 | It's removed from the schedule and that's the perfect time to kind of take a bird's eye view at some of the stuff that's happening in the league. And I wanted to talk about the Panthers defense, but I wanted to talk about it |
| 1:15.4 | in a more general way. Obviously, they've been doing so much interesting stuff with their |
| 1:19.8 | pressure packages and the way that they're just blitzing teams to death. So I wanted to talk |
| 1:24.7 | about the Panthers, but in the scope of talking about pressure in general, how you build a pressure package, how you keep yourself protected while being aggressive, the way that teams kind of construct this stuff. |
| 1:38.5 | I don't know a ton about it. |
| 1:39.9 | You do know a lot about it. |
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