03-09-2018, 12:17 PM
(03-08-2018, 04:36 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: 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.
(03-09-2018, 09:43 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: 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.
I think you guys might be exaggerating just a bit.
In the four years that Guenther was our DC we ranked FIRST in the league in interceptions.
We were ranked in the top half of the league in pass defense (efficiency) every year and finished in the TOP 5 three of the four years.
Against the Steelers we held them to a 82.6 passer rating while they compiled a 96.3 rating against the rest of the league.
We did struggle some with 3rd down conversions but I think that was more a product of poor coverage skills by our LBs than anything else.
