The worst part about the D yesterday to me was the complete confusion in the secondary. Blown coverages with guys running free.
I was listening to the radio this morning and Dilfer was on. In the context of the Ravens game he said that NFL teams get blown out like that when they are unprepared for what they see. The team has prepared all week to see one thing, and during the game it's all changed up so you're looking one way and the play goes another.
I wonder how much of the Giants confusion was the result of Dallas hasving a new coordinator. I have no other explanation for guys who are veterans for the most partmaking so many mental errors.
Poor angles. Poor tackling. And the failure to give help or scheme once it was evident Moore was targeting Hamilton.
Just the quality of their OL and RB makes this easier for them to do. Requires exceptional discipline to hold you position.
It says a lot about the construction of this team that a rookie who missed significant camp days with an injury played a significant number of snaps. He obviously wasn't ready, yet he was the best option.
How do adjustments cure blown assignments and misreads?
I'd love to tap into your wealth of knowledge to understand that.
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This clown Bettcher never makes them.
How do adjustments cure blown assignments and misreads?
I'd love to tap into your wealth of knowledge to understand that.
Blown assignments or continuing to play that cover 2?
Yeah dumbass. Cover 2
This look isn’t quite as fancy of a disguise as the cover-3 robber look. It’s a subtler form of deception, because this is similar to how the Giants would align pre-snap if they were playing true cover-3 zone across the board. Playing different coverages out of the same look prevents the offense from being able to anticipate and get into the best play quite as often.
Bettcher doesn’t just disguise out of single-high safety looks, though. The base D f a two-deep safety alignment. Just about any coverage was possible out of this look. They could have played quarters, cover-2, 2-man, rotated to a single-high look, etc.
Bettcher rarely plays a true Cover 2. He also gives multiple looks. Now perhaps that is causing confusion, but that is a different subject.
Just having two safeties isn't a Cover 2. And if you look at the splits, Bettcher played less Cover 2 than other formations in every single game last season. And he's called multiple looks - to say he's not making adjustments is just silly.
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The look we see often from Bettcher is to lock up the best cover defenders on the opposing three best receivers and use the three linebackers/safeties in the middle to account for the tight end and running back.
This look isn’t quite as fancy of a disguise as the cover-3 robber look. It’s a subtler form of deception, because this is similar to how the Giants would align pre-snap if they were playing true cover-3 zone across the board. Playing different coverages out of the same look prevents the offense from being able to anticipate and get into the best play quite as often.
Bettcher doesn’t just disguise out of single-high safety looks, though. The base D f a two-deep safety alignment. Just about any coverage was possible out of this look. They could have played quarters, cover-2, 2-man, rotated to a single-high look, etc.
Bettcher rarely plays a true Cover 2. He also gives multiple looks. Now perhaps that is causing confusion, but that is a different subject.
Just having two safeties isn't a Cover 2. And if you look at the splits, Bettcher played less Cover 2 than other formations in every single game last season. And he's called multiple looks - to say he's not making adjustments is just silly.
I always hear fans yelling about coaches not making adjustments. I think few fans are knowledgeable enough about the schemes and what a coach is doing or not doing to know 1 whether adjustments are being made and 2 whether any failure to adjust is the source of the problem
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This clown Bettcher never makes them.
How do adjustments cure blown assignments and misreads?
I'd love to tap into your wealth of knowledge to understand that.
Non-snarky actual question: would this be considered making an adjustment?
Talk to former players and they will all laugh about the myth of halftime adjustments. Phil Simms used to go on about that frequently.
We have a lot of young players so it's going to take some time. No pass rush and a young/new secondary is a disaster.
We have a lot of young players so it's going to take some time. No pass rush and a young/new secondary is a disaster.
Besides Ogletree and Jackrabbit, maybe Tae Davis, this is a new D scheme to the back 7. Bethea two years removed from it, and 4 new guys and rookies to deal with. There was clearly confusion on assignments on the two middle field long TD's. This is going to take a few weeks at least, maybe less but not likely. Also, who's really a fit for it , personnel wise. I'm hoping this game isnt a real tell tale on our talent, or scheme, except week 1. Hoping...
If we did, they weren't playing it right. Isn't the point of cover 2 having two safeties back deep?