Thanks a ton for that 3-4 look with JPP at ILB and Osi at RDE that left a hole you could have driven John Holmes through with no pain. Brilliant way to use your best edge rusher, on the fucking inside. I'm also pretty happy with how you haven't closed down the zone coverage at all and moved your safeties closer towards the hash marks and 2-3 yards further up the field like a real Cover 2 would, you don't need to study what a shitty team like the Bears do on offense, and certainly you wouldn't want to pattern anything after the Steelers and their rolled up C-2. Be your own man!!!
And Corey Webster being totally flummoxed 9 weeks into the season against the opponents best player? Bravo sir, why on Earth would he want to waste time playing defense when standing still is just as easy and the results are the same? I'm also particularly proud of how wide you allow your worst DL to play outside at RDE, why use gap discipline when Osi can fly upfield 8 yards past the QB and have a nice view of the Cincinnati 100 sections which are chock full of tubby midwestern goodness. Kudos as well for allowing teams free reign over the middle as you did in week one Vs. Dallas and continue to do in week 10. I predicted the night prior to the opener that our biggest issue would be deep and medium middle because you don't press your CBs, your LBs don't sink well enough usually (save for one play in the Super Bowl) and you love to stunt your tall athletic DEs inside or play them at DT so there is no WAY they could affect the wide open passing lanes that have existed since you got here.
Pressure? You don't need no stinking pressure, just send a 265 slow footed LB on a..delayed blitz on Osi's inside shoulder, that should work because the two guys who had to block #72 are really bored as he runs himself outside of the play by ignoring essentially 3 gaps at once. A gap blitz with a fast LB because double teams are aimed at JPP? Noooo JPP is inside or at LB or ..where is he?? that's a fun game. Using the talent you have at DE to open up the inside to LB, S, CB blitzes would be silly, you just keep looping them around like very slow flies swarming a carcass they may or may not want to eat. Most coaches would have watched tape, adjusted or gone back to the basics of the Cover 2 that you learned but not you big guy. You just won't let anyone dampen your creative spirit, now matter how badly you fingerpaint a all over our defense.
In your defense, you don't have much to work with, only 4 All Pro players, and certainly no high draft picks, I mean Corey Webster was a 2nd round pick...what a LOSER, Phillips, Rolle and Amukamara are all #1s so trust me pal, I feel your pain. Your DL?? Big money on Chris Canty, Rocky Bernard, premium picks in Kiwi, Tuck, Osi, JPP, Linval Joseph but your hands are tied by that confounded Jerry Reese who just keeps stockpiling OL players but won't even look to the DL or secondary. He sure never got you any LBs, he didn't sign a high priced one, draft 3, trade for another and dust one off and buff him to a big white shine so he could rescue you in the Super Bowl. What are you supposed to do when you have no talent, and the front office does nothing to help your side of the ball at all. Stay strong Perry, you'll show those bastards.
People vent. I try to ignore the knee jerk stuff. We all get a bit nutty after such a bad game. I just hate the "we won two Super Bowl" excuse. It's as silly as the FIRE AND KILL Gilbride and Fewell stuff.
I'll feel a lot better about the state of this football team if the offense can at least get back to being the force it looked like it was earlier in the year.
and it took perry 15 games to finally change what wasnt working...and we never lost again...why he went back to his crap scheme this season is the question we'd all like an answer to
no one does less with more than perry fewell
Please explain to me why he would abandon something that worked for no apparent reason. It makes zero sense. I can't wrap my brain around why you think an NFL coordinator would see something work and win a Championship and then go into the next season and completely ditch that approach.
There's way more to it than you think. I'm pretty sure if it were as simple as just being more aggressive, he would have tried that already.
- The defense kept the Steelers to 24 points last week despite a horrific special teams performance
- The Giants are among the leaders in sacks and turnovers since Fewell became DC
- The Giants won their last six games last year without surrendering more than 20 points in any of those games en route to a title
You don't get to just pick which facts to consider and which to ignore. The past two weeks have sucked, but excuse me if I don't freak out because the Giants aren't going 14-2. Most of us expected anywhere from 8-8 to 12-4. Don't know why we manage to be surprised when these expectations come true. Defies logic.
Getting turnovers are great, and they have helped us win A LOT of games the last two years, but I think the majority of us dont feel safe with any type of lead late in games. I dont think we are confident of getting many 3 and outs (I wonder where we rank there?)
You arent going to hold teams to 17 or less evrey game, but it would be a nice change to see the defense get some more 3 and outs and be confident they can hold a lead. So far, its apparent we cant do either.
Thats not good defense.
The Giants are basically constructed as a team that will win most games if the offense plays up to par. The defense isn't going to carry us and they're going to give up some plays but they will usually generate turnovers at least.
Prior to yesterdays loss, we had allowed 24, 19 and 24 points in the 3 other losses which really isn't terrible. Our offense is good enough to win games like that.
Lets be honest we have athletes on defense and other than chase and KP not many cerebral players. you put a complicated zone scheme with too many reads and checks and you make the player have to think too much and take away their aggressiveness. so yes the players are making a lot of mistakes but its up to the coaches to put the players in a position to succeed with a system that matches their talents. We have already seen what they can succeed in over and over but our DC always tries to go back to his roots even though it doesnt mesh with our players. Its a DC job to understand right now only Webster and Rolle have experience in his system. Brown, Hosely and Prince with his limited work last year are new to the system so to put all those complicated checks on them is not putting them in position to succeed especially when their background and playing style doesnt match the system. Hosely and Prince are aggressive man corners and Brown is a converted LB who you cant expect to have the footwork in C2 zone 1 on 1 with receivers.
The Green TD yesterday is a perfect example. A combination of Rolle and Brown at safety and Chase at MLB should NEVER be in a cover 2 zone in a multiple receiver set because 1) Chase will most likely have to be covering a WR down the deep middle. 2) one of our safeties will likely have to cover 2 WRs which means he has to split them and break on the one being thrown to. That takes footwork that neither Rolle nor Brown have. Even if brown had stayed back and covered green on that play there was another receiver that would have been wide open for the TD down the middle because there is no way chase could stay with him.
This isnt just about yesterdays game. yesterday the offense had more to do with the loss than anything else but more times than not our offense has bailed our defense out and our defense has been consistently been the weaker unit even though it has more resources devoted to it.
Again, you're basically saying that he saw something work well and saw it help win a Championship and then he went into this season and decided to abandon that completely. Why would he do that? I've yet to hear a single person give any sort of reason as to why he'd do that.
If it was as simple as just simplifying everything, he'd have done it. I pretty strongly doubt it's that easy.
I look at this way, if I order something at a restaurant and I get a shitty waiter, it's on the guy who hired him and stuck him on the floor. Find someone better, train them better or dont' trot them out there when it's crunch time. You've seen Brown and Webster excel and you've seen this defense excel when players admittedly do less thinking and play. So what do you blame that play on? It's damn sure someone's fault, but why? Did Fewell not make it clear who has deep responsibility on a specific formation or are Brown and Webster both just idiots?
Again, I don't mean to sound preachy, but when you play and coach enough you can see when players are tentative because they don't a) understand and b) trust what they are being told. Can I quantify it? NO. Can I draw it up? NO. But when players of that caliber are being hung out to dry weekly and you see the hang dog look and arms up in confusion, it's not because they're just bad players its because they didn't see it, weren't prepared or don't trust what they're being told. When you're asked to do anything you don't see the point in or don't quite understand it's natural to do it hesitantly and not at full bore and I think....once again, that is what we're seeing with this bunch.
If 31 points against the Bengals, Cowboys receivers running free all day long and a choked away 4th quarter lead against the Steelers doesn't bother you then we agree to disagree that something stinks. I've said this before plenty of times, but when you watch film and you practice and you see in the game what you saw on film or were taught during the week, a bell goes off...you see it, you feel it and you get a surge because you know you have your opponent figured out and you go in for the kill. If you aren't sure, don't think it's right or wonder why you're in a certain coverage for a certain play despite your instincts you hesitate and we see a TON of that now. It's not lack of effort, it's not heart, it's not people who don't care or lack talent. It's people who don't have faith in their coach or his scheme or the play calls and it shows as plain as day. I've been on both sides of the coin, utterly confused and supremely confident because of practice, film study and game plan and the difference in how you play on both sides is staggering.
Listen, I get what you're saying.. adjustments need to be made. But it's also not as easy as "well, this guy is making mistakes he's got to sit" because we don't have enough healthy players to play that game. We're already down Phillips. Sash hasn't shown much of anything and got hurt.. if you sit Stevie Brown, who the heck is taking his place?
I guess as I keep saying, I can't think of any logical reason why if Fewell just simplified everything and saw such great results, what incentive would he have to make it complicated again? Why would any coach do that? Wouldn't Coughlin pull him aside and ask him why he completely abandoned something that worked so well for seemingly no reason?
It just seems to me like there's more to it. And of course the choked away lead to the Steelers bothered me.. and so did the Bengal game in a myriad of ways. But as I pointed out earlier.. we went 3 and out offensively THREE consecutive times to close out that Steeler game. That's a game that was easily winnable. The defense didn't play all that great but they also didn't make it so that there was an insurmountable lead for the offense to overcome. The offense didn't score a single TD in the 2nd half and only had one all game. We keep settling for FG's in the red zone. And against Cincinatti we gave the ball away 4 times. The odds of winning a football game dip down to almost nothing when you do that.
The defense has its issues. I'm not ignoring that. But there are just as many problems on the other side of the football right now. Maybe more.
We agree with much of what Joey has said as of now at least eyeball test-wise..ALL we're saying is that we've seen this picture before and CHOOSE to allow it to play out BEFORE making definitive judgements.
We were fortunate against GB last year with drops/fumbles.
We were fortunate that Brady missed a wide open Welker and they were missing their best receiver.
Sometimes you gotta nut up and stop a team from driving. We havent proven to do so yet.
Fewell being subpar has been a story for most of his tenure here. The offense sucking bad now doesnt change that.
Regardless, the defense is a problem so is the offense. There's solid football discussion going on in this thread, though. I don't think there's really any reason to derail it by critiquing what's being discussed rather than simply contribute to the discussion.
When the offense repeatedly goes 3 and out or turns the ball over, you increase the odds of the other team scoring and that's what we've seen happen. If the offense can sustain more drives and be more efficient in the red zone, the defense will benefit. It all goes hand in hand. It's not a matter of singling out each unit as much as it is pointing out that they each effect the other. And right now, neither is playing well. Thus, ugly losses and terrible football.
hopefully the communication gets cleared up/defense simplified and having kenny phillips/rivers or williams back on the field will improve run defense and elimination of the deepballs/miscommunications.
The same reason,ego.Maybe a little bit of stubbornness.Perhaps Fewell is conscious of how it would look to teams who are considering him as a head coach.I believe he did come out and deny he even made significant changes last year.
79 yards - TD
11 Yards - TD
49 yards - loss of downs
60 yards - FG
Now the only POSITIVE thing shown there is a loss of downs. And it was a 11 play drive, took time off the clock. Good defense makes stops. I believe part of the problem with the offense is that it never gets into a rhythm.
And even the 11 yard drive, we had them 3rd and 10 - and we still couldnt stop it. Defense is a huge problem. Always has been, always will be.
I mean, this logic just makes no sense to me at all.
I can't kill a defense for giving up a TD when the team starts on OUR 11.
Forcing a turnover on downs and holding a team to 3 are fine.
A 11 play 50 yard that results a loss of down isnt good either.
Two drives that take up 12 minutes is not good defense. Good defense know how to get off the field.
These two drives took up 14 minutes of the first half. How can an offense get ANY rhythm when they are not on the field? Getting 3 and outs are good results.
We're 12th in points allowed, were creating more turnovers than any other team. I'm annoyed by the blown assignments and lack of pressure and we need to be better. But it's not like we are giving up TDs every single time the D takes the field.
Hey Perry, just cause your making millions, doesn't mean you have to try to force people to think your brilliant through your schemes.
It's NOT ABOUT YOU DUDE.
And yes you can expect offense to make long drives like that. But the Bengals were 3 for 3 in the first half. We didnt stop them once. A good/great defense forces 3 and outs. A good defense doesnt get field position flipped on them continuously.
This is about the 4th or 5th time this season where our opponent hasnt punted in a half. That is very bad. I am not absolving the offense, since they have been putrid. But its tough when you only get 2-3 chances to score in a half. Momentum is very big in football, and BOTH the offense and the defense do a bad job of maintaining it.
The thing is the defense has been doing it for 3 years, while the offense has been doing it for 3 games. Relying on other teams to make mistakes is very dangerous.
And ill say it again. its been documented in articles that the 2 years prior the players have gone to Fewell and asked for the simplification and after its done our defense has played better. Earlier this year we heard grumblings from Webster about the scheme again. If people want to wait till our backs are totally against the wall yet again to call for a change then thats your choice but that just doesnt make any sense to me.
the starting D-Line
Boley and Rivers at LB
webster - rolle - prince at CB
brown + phillips deep
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this accomplishes getting hosley off the field for the stretch run (like they did with prince last year). too many mistakes from him - put it in the hands of the vets. jayron's day will come
this includes putting kiwi in the defensive end rotation
boley + rivers gives u tremendous range, instincts and tackling ability at linebacker
get ur best players on the field, in position, to defend the belt. if rivers keeps going down, hopefully j-will is ready to step in, but they really need to get the same 11 guys stringing practices together