The D, what are the problems?

[Largent80]

LOL, the DC is Pete Carroll not Norton.

Ever watch a sideline D meeting?...Norton is off to the side.

Hmmm, zero pass rush and people are ready to jettison competent CB's??????

 

[Sgt. Largent]

LOL, the DC is Pete Carroll not Norton.

Ever watch a sideline D meeting?...Norton is off to the side.

Hmmm, zero pass rush and people are ready to jettison competent CB's??????

How far our expectations have fallen when we're OK with "competent."

Btw, "competent" is being generous when it comes to evaluating Flowers, he's routinely at the bottom of the CB lists just about every game.

Like I said above, if we ever want to get back to being a dominant defense, we have to find a shutdown corner. It's at the very core of what we do on defense.......which is take away half the field, drop our SS down into the box and choke the ever loving hell out of the opposing offense.

 

[Seanhawk]

I think I solved it...is that freakin' Aaron Curry poisoning the well?

 

[getnasty]

Let's take our, lanky, long-armed, rangy corners, and have them play off coverage, and outside bail technique most of the game. You would never want to press them as they aren't built for that kind of play.

Let's allow the other teams (as in every week) top target to run right down the seam with no one within 10 yards of him. And give all of their receivers most of the time free releases while we're at it.

Let's not account for the RB & TE when coming out of the backfield. The QB must always have an open outlet so if he feels any sort of pressure he can easily dump it off to his check down. We wouldn't want to register a sack.

Let's burn multiple timeouts a game because we can't get the right personnel on the field. Even when the other team took a timeout, and gave you plenty of time.

Let's stay with 3 backers no matter what. Which forces you to play zone because you can't ask a LB to cover a WR man to man. But not only that, let's play the most super generic "Nick Holt" soft zone you ever saw, on a play by play basis. What could possibly go wrong?

Let's Play Tampa 2, and take our all world LB and move him 15-20 yards deep, leaving a huge void in the short middle of the field.

Let's not run stunts and twists, and when we do, let's make it look like we spent hardly any practice time on it.

Now it's time to blitz. We got generic nickle blitz, generic sam blitz, and generic mike blitz. And when we are feeling exotic let's blitz Clowney in the A-gap.

Talent aside. This defensive scheme is a joke. Everyone across the board on defense is having a down year for good reason.

They have now fallen to 27th in DVOA. And are getting worse by the week.

Add J.Reed, get worse.

Add M.Blair get worse.

This is middle of the pack personnel that should be hovering around 16th DVOA. The scheme is dragging them into the bottom 5.

Good Football players on the 27th Ranked defense (and dropping).

Poona Ford
Quinton Jefferson
Jarran Reed
J.D. Clowney
Bobby Wagner
Michael Kendricks
K.J. Wright
Shaquille Griffin
Marquise Blair
Bradley McDougald

soon to be added Quandre Diggs

= 27th best defense. LOLOLOLLLLOLOOL.

We have 11 good players on defense? If good = average then maybe but the talent is not what you think it is. I'm not a huge fan of Norton but in my eyes even Wagner and Clowney have been a little dissapointing.