Q: When you have four receivers and one running back on the field, how does that put stress on the opposing defense?
BB: Yeah, well it depends on how many defensive backs you have on the field. We were running into the same thing last week with [Kenyan] Drake, this week with [Le'Veon] Bell. It's the same thing. There's really five receivers out there when you have a back like Drake, Bell or [Ty] Montgomery for that matter, who played receiver earlier in his career at Green Bay. So, if you have four defensive backs, you're kind of a guy short. If you have five defensive backs, you can matchup to them but then you have no deep help in kind of blitz-zero coverage. If you have six defensive backs, you can kind of play whatever you want. Zone is zone, so if you want to play man-to-man, you've just got to decide how you want those matchups to go, how long you think you can hold up in them, or play zone and if you feel like you can't matchup then there's a zone option. There's some different options there. It's definitely a problem, it's definitely a problem. If you have five receivers on the field, you generally don't want to put six defensive backs out there until it's third down unless they're true receivers, like when Pittsburgh was using five true wideouts. [Ryan] Switzer kind of played a little bit of running back for them but it's not like having Le'Veon Bell back there, or Drake back there, or somebody like that, so it definitely puts pressure on the defense.
Q: Do you feel like you're seeing more of that?
BB: We see it every day in practice, so we see James White and Rex Burkhead out there, it's the same thing. You have five receivers out there. Those are hard matchups for players who aren't good, experienced coverage players playing at all of the positions because those guys could line up anywhere. It's the same thing with Bell, again, or Drake, or Montgomery – other guys like that. They could be outside in a corner-type alignment or they could be somewhere inside in more of a linebacker or safety-type of coverage area, traditionally. It's definitely a problem. But again, we've seen that every day in practice so that's one of the good things about our offense, is we've been able to – no backs are any more of a problem than these two guys are for us to cover. We've seen plenty of it. It still is a problem but it's not like we don't see it every day in practice.