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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 848910" data-attributes="member: 12283">Totally. Credit where due, Martinez plays hard. But he's a limited player and his limitations limit the ability of the defense as a whole.Basically Martinez means that the DL must dominate. Because he forces them to go light at the second level to defend the pass, because he can't cover. So you end up with Martinez, who can't handle blockers and can't cover, and another player who can't handle blockers but maybe can cover.So if the DL, specifically Clark and Lowry, dominate, then the defense can be successful. Because Blake can handle run down responsibilities OK if he's kept clean (obviously sometimes that's not even enough, as Jacobs showed us yesterday).But if the DL can't eat all of the blocks, then they have to play someone like Goodson, because Martinez can't handle it. So then you end up with favorable matchups for the passing attack, because you have two second level players who can't cover.If Martinez was just good at one thing or the other, this would be much easier.</blockquote>

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