Maxx Crosby getting double-teamed gives other Raiders a chance to make plays
The Las Vegas Raiders will soon have a solution to a problem they had in Week 2 against the Buffalo Bills. Even their best defensive player, Maxx Crosby, was nearly neutralized by the Bills offensive line.He was double-teamed, chipped, and anything else you can do to take away an edge rusher all game long. The […]
The Las Vegas Raiders will soon have a solution to a problem they had in Week 2 against the Buffalo Bills. Even their best defensive player, Maxx Crosby, was nearly neutralized by the Bills offensive line.
He was double-teamed, chipped, and anything else you can do to take away an edge rusher all game long. The Raiders didn't get a single sack off the Bills.
"I mean great players demand obviously a lot of attention," Coach Josh McDaniels said.
On Sunday Night Football against the Pittsburgh Steelers, that cannot happen. They are having some offensive line issues, and if the Raiders can't pressure Kenny Pickett, their offense will do whatever they want.
Luckily for the Raiders, they now have other players on the defensive line who have a bigger opportunity to show out now, because we know that Crosby will get double-teamed again.
McDaniels said the same thing.
"So, we have got to be able to try to take advantage of it somehow, someway in another way," McDaniels continued. "It gives other people opportunities. Because if he's got two on him, they usually have one on somebody else or a lot of people. So, there are opportunities that are there that will present themselves.
"We just need to be able to try to take advantage of it. But complementary defense is, when they do this to limit somebody, there could be a weakness somewhere else, and we got to find it. We have other people who can make plays; when they do, maybe some of that stuff will go away."
If guys like John Jenkins, Tyree Wilson, Malcolm Koonce, Jerry Tillery, Adam Butler, and even Byron Young can step up and put pressure on the quarterback, it instantly changes everything. Then they can't double Crosby, and the defensive line can control the game.
The Raiders should have a better chance at doing that this Sunday than they did last Sunday.
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