Blitzing in the Preseason: Is There an Unwritten Rule?

One of the more enjoyable parts of watching a Major League Baseball game (for me, at least) is parsing all the unwritten rules and figuring out why a particular player might be mad at another player for some overly-dramatic bat flip or sexually-charged walk-up music.

Subtlety is not the NFL’s strong suit, but it was interesting to see some people on Twitter Thursday speculating that Browns defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was blitzing too much against the Eagles in primetime. Is there an unwritten rule about sending more than four rushers in an exhibition game? Probably not from a guy whose new catch phrase is “No s----, I got a lozenge, b----.”

By my count, the Browns blitzed seven times…