re: SI.com piece on why the Saints are Super Bowl contenders.

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Regarding the rest of the Saints pass rush, many believe it to be ferocious because of this defense’s swarming nature and Cameron Jordan’s breakout 12.5-sack season. But several of Jordan’s sacks were coverage sacks, and it was regularly apparent that the front seven doesn’t have enough speed outside of Junior Galette to consistently generate its own pressure.

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huh. I know on several of those, Jordan just whipped his man off the ball. But whatever.

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Behind this group are inside linebackers Curtis Lofton and David Hawthorne, two fast, attack-minded players who have erupted in Ryan’s scheme.

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sounds like we have a believer for our buddy Hawthorne.

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More than that, though, much of Sean Payton’s play designs attack the middle of the field, which is exactly where Seattle’s defense is designed to swarm. With dominant one-on-one outside corners compressing everything, the Seahawks have extra bodies to use in a smaller area of space. As the Saints found out, that can be overwhelming.

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couldn't you say just about the same thing for most offenses though that face the Seahawks? They get a lot of pressure from their front four and can drop their athletic LB's underneath to crowd things over the middle.

that could complicate things for any offense even if they used more of a vertical passing game.