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.
I seems like we executed better late last season, and the 3 safety look seemed to work.
This year, we are not executing so we look like shit.
-The D can't get a friggin' stop unless it gets a turnover. The D is on the field WAY too long.
-Offense goes 3 and out
Rinse. Repeat.
And that, coming on the season to date where we've been gashed mercilessly on the ground 4 times on through the air 4 even while winning makes it seems like the D is sucking worse than they are.
Way to go.
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what he did was simplify things and take the inexperienced players off the field as much as he could (g.jones, j-will and prince). they were getting abused and constantly breaking down
after the washington debacle he put his "vets" on the field for the stretch run - going almost exclusive 3 safety with deon grant. (and thus, taking prince off the field). he would just have rolle over the slot WR if they went multi-WR. no prince unless absolutely necessary. and he got some guys back reasonably healthy.
he is back at that point now: hosley is getting burned. stevie brown has stepped up as a playmaker. nobody outside of boley can add to the coverage at linebacker. i expect we emerge from the bye using the 3 S look with KP on the field again (Rolle over the slot, instead of Hosley).
we get one last chance to fix this. put everything on the plate of your vets. onus on them to communicate and execute. no excuses. we will see if the vets can bring us home but i expect everyone 2 know what time it is coming out of the bye.
it's time
But once again the season starts this year and it's the same inconsistent defense. It is absolutely maddening. I'm sick of giving up so many yards to TEs (Or anyone running across the middle of the field), I'm tired of giving up so much in the run game, and I'm tired of the horrible tackling.
I don't know, is it talent (lack of)? Or is it scheme? Have we just been figured out, waiting for a reinvent in the 2nd half of the year again? Is Fewell really just a mediocre DC that over-acheived last year? I just don't know what to think anymore.
I can't blame Fewell for Hosley's rookie mistake or the great catch made on Prince or the turnovers and return that set up the short fields.
it seems to me that if we didn't do a complete about face under Fewell and go on the run we did, BBI would have collectively run the guy out of town.
what is bizarre to me though is why have we regressed to Nov of last season form defensively and not continued our defensive growth as a unit from the end.
Bad combo.
Bill in Springfield : 2:41 pm
Last Year, not this year
The offense is in a funk right now but I am much more confident that they will bounce back then I am of the defense actually being good.
a. The liberal media would be all over Coughlin for firing a black man.
b. Coughlin does not read BBI and does not know what simple adjustments are needed to fix the defense.
c. Coughlin is too loyal.
d. Giants won a SB just ten months ago with Fewell's defense throttling the opposition.
But, that's a minor issue compared to some of the other shit he does that drives me nuts.
Terps. i think assessment should be a daily/weekly thing and cant just wait till the end of the season. You always need to assess your team/players/coaches and make adjustments. If its a major adjustment then maybe you wait till the offseason to do the adjustment but you should be constantly assessing. But i think you are meaning more not making knee jerk midseason reactions to the assessments.
On Sunu's td, the defender is right there AND hits the ball AND Sunu proceeds to catch it against his frigging leg. This is on Fewell too?
So, even though the defense was handed a shit sandwich, not once, but twice, Fewell had players in position to stop the TD and it took circus plays from two Bengal receivers to get touchdowns.
The defense is missing one tackle, for all practical purposes at this point, a 3rd down linebacker and its starting safety. Fewell is having to cover several holes- whether some of you want to recognize them or not.