(11-28-2017, 03:15 AM)Tuxedo Wrote:

(11-27-2017, 08:51 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: I wouldn’t put it 100% on the coaches but it was very conservative on both sides. Absolutely could’ve been better.

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I think Wash got into his own head on the very first play he sent a bunch of extra rushers and Gabbert beat it with the pass to the TE.

I get why Hackett was conservative since our personnel on offense is mediocre at best with all the injuries, but Wash doesn't have that excuse. I don't even think our issue was the fact our play calling was conservative, it was because it was out of the norm. We've been a great defense because we've been able to get pressure with four down linemen while our corners press on the line, so why were they playing so far off on Sunday? I get the Arizona has some speed in their receiving corps, but we've faced teams like Houston and Pittsburgh that have that speed coupled with FAR more talent. This defense doesn't need to play off man to keep everything in front of them.

I agree with this and with the others questioning how Wash was too conservative with the zone defense and the cushion given to receivers. Sometimes he sorts of reverts back to Gus soft D while we have the players to keep being aggressive.
And on the Cardinals late FG drive again we held back too much, I understand the holding not called on Jack hurts a lot but we can't make them throw on us so easily.

The conservative approach was also in contrast to how we started the game: on the very first drive when the Cardinals were on 3rd and long and we got burned as Church failed to press his guy at the LOS it was the first time we sent 7 players at Gabbert since week 1 at Houston.(O'Halloran stat) Seeing that I thought we were planning to bring a lot of pressure all day but instead after we got burned on that play we didn't start pressuring again until the second half or so.
Hearing Marrone press conference after the game I think they realized they didn't good job at preparing this game and got outcoached by Arians & co. It happens, hopefully they'll fix the issues, Seahawks in a couple of weeks should be a good test.

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