01-03-2018, 06:50 PM
(01-03-2018, 06:28 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: I agree with this. I’m not sure why people think we have the personnel for a 3-4 base. Some of it’s there sure, but not all or most, in my opinion. I also believe a switch would effectively deem Geno mostly useless, but I’m no expert. Plus our LBers are horrible in space except VB. Maybe a 3-4 could mask some of that but I’d expect that to be moot, given the deficiencies I see.
They are trying to win now, which is part of the reason Marvin was brought back. The best course of action would be to build on the foundation that is here, with the talent that’s here.
In my opinion, this is a (potentially) championship caliber defense. With a little more help in coaching & a player or two, they can be deadly.
The offense isn’t really that far off either, if they can fix the blocking & get another receiving threat. Boyd has that potential. Kroft is a decent TE & Mixon & Gio could be the best duo in the league - that potential is there.
I think we just may surprise some people next year, including many fans.
(01-03-2018, 06:38 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: Maybe being a player or two away is nothing new, & maybe that’s been the issue the whole time (that ownership is too narrow to sign the necessary missing pieces). Seems that’s what Marvin wrestled away from (mike) this time around. So ... time will tell, I suppose.
I think scheme will have a lot to do with it DA. With Del Rio we would probably run a lot more man to man and much
less soft zone. This is the biggest reason i want to move on from Paulie G and go the Del Rio route, we would be much
more aggressive and play to the strengths of our players on Defense. New Linebacker coach is needed though.
Also i think Lazor having some say on Offense had something to do with the change to more directional blocking late
in the year and we will see much more of this under a new O-line coach.
Bottom line is this team needs to be more aggressive and play less zone and what you say could happen.
