Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Who’s supplying pressure off the edge?
That "motor" word gets used a lot describing our defense and it's used here again. @nspence94 flys around the corner and chases the QB down pic.twitter.com/Oz1BhnlCcw
— RealBucsTalk (@RealBucsTalk) June 29, 2017
Playing in the NFC South, it’s absolutely imperative that a defense features some dynamic pass rushers. Players like Drew Brees, Matt Ryan and Cam Newton will eat you for breakfast if given time to examine the field without any threat of being hit.
Now, overall the Bucs have some guys who can reliably get to the quarterback. Guys like Gerald McCoy, Kwon Alexander and Lavonte David are consistently applying pressure, but mostly they’re doing it from inside.
While inside pressure is great, defenses that can’t consistently get to the quarterback off the edge will be at a disadvantage.
Noah Spence, William Gholston and Robert Ayers are the guys who really need to step up their games. Between them last season, they accounted for just 15 sacks. One dynamic pass rusher will give you 15 sacks in a good year. Three pass rushers should be able to do better than this.