Sgt. Largent":1ct0505u said:LTH":1ct0505u said:Sgt. Largent":1ct0505u said:TwistedHusky":1ct0505u said:If it was personnel, we wouldn't have seen this last year.
Last year the excuse was we had no safeties.
Now the excuse is the DL.
Plenty of defenses with less talent have at least not been the worst in history against the pass. When you are this bad, there are plenty of excuses but generally, it means the guy in charge is the problem.
In this case, the DC. This all only started once Norton got here.
The longer he has been here the more entrenched the results have gotten and the worse they have become.
Before, letting teams come back into the RZ regularly in under 2 min was a before the half or 2 min warning thing. Now those are under 1 minute and we regularly allow teams to march into the RZ in 2 minutes or less.
This is a symptom of Norton.
I'm no defender of Norton, but I don't know how you can watch Mayowa, Reed, Ford and Collier and think personnel is not the biggest issue.
It has to be the worst D-line talent wise in the entire league.
Get any D- coordinator you want, that line isn't improving.
First of all I think this D is not going to be a D like 2013... that seems to be everybody's expectation... That being said,
I think this D can be fixed to be competitive but not great...
They need to find another corner that can play besides Flowers .... everytime the guy comes in the game they go to a zone cause he can't man up for some season. JS needs to address that or they need to coach up Flowers because its a problem...
secondly, I ask the question is it reasonable to have our starting DT's Playing 75-80% in the rotation? I think not... and that was apparent last night as the cards started pushing them around in the 4th...
and then the obvious JA needs to come back... surely they need to get some more pressure going...
I dont think its going to be fixable by this boards standards but I think this D can be competitive enough to make a SB run with the way the O is playing... we will see I could be very wrong but I want to see what happens when Green and Snacks come in the rotation and I want to see the Hawks fix Flowers or find another corner... I would love to see the corners stay healthy
Just my take
LTH
1. They went out and got another corner, his name is Quinton Dunbar. He hasn't been healthy. So you want another another corner? Where's that player coming from?
2. The reason we got Snacks is because Pete and John know that 80% of snaps for Ford and Reed isn't sustainable. As evident that neither player is effective after halftime.
You're talking about things that should have been addressed in the off season. We bargain binned the defensive line, didn't get any CB depth and the draft picks we did make aren't making an impact, and now we're paying for it. There were PLENTY of front line pass rushers and DE's that could have been had for 10-15M.
Maybe John can work his magic and trade for a DE, but that's not going to fix the defense. We need 2-3 key pieces to even get to mediocre.
SGT I think your right... these things should have been addressed in the off season but here is the thing PC and JS are some of the most brilliant minds in the NFL, If you could pay 1000 bucks to be able to sit in the meetings and find out what they are actually thinking, sit in the draft room during the draft? would ya do it? I would.... Im not sure why they didnt address certain issues... But your right All of these issues should have been addressed maybe one day we will know what actually happened... here is hoping for the best for the rest of the season...
LTH