I know allot of you guys don't want us to play prevent defense any longer seeing as it cost us at least one game this year and nearly got us again today.... But playing prevent is not the problem, in fact I would make the case that we are not playing prevent... Our at the very best, we are not playing it correctly.

The prevent /soft zone concept is designed to allow opponents to gain small amounts of yards while depleting the game clock. The design is to kill any opportunity for a big play.... Therein lies the problem... Prevent, the way we are playing it, is not limiting the abilities of the opponent to make a big play. In fact it seems to be encouraging them to try.

I think the coaches need to reevaluate the concepts and execution of the prevent defense as they want to run it, and point out the deficiencies and solidify alignments and assignments of the players in those situations. 

We can't let the most basic of defensive concepts cost us another game, or even allow it to bring another game back to a close contest when it was firmly in hand. 

By the way, we play man coverage defense better than any other team in the game, why not just do what we do best, force them to beat us at our best, or beat them doing what we do best. Seems  to be the best way to me.

Go Jags!

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