John Ross

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(03-08-2018, 04:36 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: You know it man, all of this is playing conservative and playing not to lose.

Don't have to throw bombs all day as Fred alluded to. Just try to get the first downs instead of throwing Screens to the backs
or underneath routes that the Defense sees coming. Dalton needs time but when he has just a bit he is the best Slot route
passer in the league. These are 15 to 20 yard routes that we could just feast on teams with.

You have to gamble a bit on Defense as well and blitz sometimes, so true.


Thank God Paulie G is gone, this drove me nutz.

Need to stop the soft coverage with the DB's as well and use less zone and more man to man.

Pretty much all of our CB's are man to man Corners, use them as such atleast most of the time.

I don't understand what happened to Paulie G...was it Marv?  At first, under Zimmer, Paulie was responsible for drawing up some of the new blitz schemes.  They rarely used them, but I was liking what I was seeing.   Then, after he got his shot, he evolved more in to the Chuck Breshnahan "Don't give up the big play" stupidity.  

I will never understand dying a slow death, 5-10 yards at a time, with no on pressuring the QB or short routes.  They just gave QBs the check down all day long.  The steelers would capitalize on this better than anyone.  Send four receivers out in a pattern more than ten yards downfield, check it down to Bell, scamper 8 yards for a first down before a defender was even in the picture.  Over and over and over again.  That is one of the reason our defense is so sorely lacking on turnovers because they give the easy, uncontested passes.