Then allow me to elaborate. The 2-4-5 has killed us all season. Hurtt still calls it including in obvious running situations. A lot of the scheme choices having been him choosing to play each of the ones you mention when the down and distance or the offensive personnel should dictate a different call. If you want direct examples, I can go watch film and elaborate further.
There is a current thread where Matt Brown is breaking down our run fits. He shows that calls are being made by Hurtt that are putting the players at a disadvantage by the formation and then dictating their actions by motion. The league has obviously figured out Hurtt's defense as they are running at will against us.
Your comment about them thinking and not reacting ties directly into coaching. If your players still haven't figured out your defense in the last month of the season, the coach is doing something wrong. That or Schneider is drafting the lowest football IQ guys in the NFL.
Your comment about not attacking plays down hill is a direct indictment of Clint Hurtt and his desire to have them read and react with two gap responsibilities. The players have proven time and again that they can not perform at even an NFL average level while doing it, but Hurtt continues to call that style of defense.
Perhaps if I say Clint Hurtt's play calling of the defense instead of scheme would be more accurate.
But they haven't primarily been in the 2-4-5 all season.
They've been in the 2-4-5 and 3-3-5, up until the past three games of which they've mainly been in a bear front (6-2-3), which I illustrated above, something like over 50% of the time now desperately trying to stop the run.
So again, do any scheme you want, and the Hawk's have tried all the schemes.
My solution playing any backup QB? Eight men in the box, CB's on island and Diggs is back alone to minimize any over the top plays.
That's it, that's all that's going to slow down this defense getting ran over.
You act like they're just stubbornly running the same unsuccessful scheme, like the 100+ years of successful defensive coaches don't know what's going on. I don't care about Hurtt, keep him, fire him, it wouldn't matter with the current group of players. It just wouldn't.
Giving up 100+ yards of rushing after initial contact isn't scheme, it's dudes. Not shedding blocks, not beating your man, not attacking downhill, WR's not shedding WR blocks to make plays on the edge, all of the above.
