“You just have to be aware of great players, whoever that might be, and where they are, but if they’re only a rusher, then you’re kind of finding them on the line of scrimmage all the time,” Vikings Offensive Coordinator Wes Phillips said. “[Parsons] can be off the ball. He’s capable of covering. You can say, ‘Hey, we’ll go to him, no matter where he’s at,’ but they’ve also got, they’ll also rush Anthony Barr or Leighton Vander Esch, and then your back is on a guy who is 6-foot-4, 255 pounds, so there’s challenges to the other matchups as well. But when you’re saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got to account for this guy,’ now, you can put in four true defensive linemen with him, and you’ve got five guys where they’re creating some sort of 1-on-1.”
“They like to bring five-man pressures or align five guys on the line,” Phillips continued. “They have a lot of movement and picks, and they’re very athletic, so they get there fast. It’s going to be a real challenge for us, for our technique, for our eyes and our pass sets, handling all the movement and also locating where Parsons is. You can talk about him, but I think just scheme in general, DeMarcus [Lawrence] has 5.0 sacks, and [Dorance] Armstrong has 5.0 sacks, and [Dante] Fowler has got 4.0, and Sam Williams has 3.0. The safety, 6, (Donovan Wilson) he’s got 3.0 sacks, and he leads their team in tackles and has [two] more than Vander Esch, which is pretty rare for a strong safety. They’ve got a lot of good players over there, so it’s challenging to break these guys down and try to figure out the plan to pick up all their different packages, but by the end of the week, I think we’ll feel pretty good about it.”
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