(10-16-2018, 12:00 PM)JackCity Wrote: And to be fair to Wash, it's what his 3rd season as a DC? He's pretty inexperienced in that role. I'd wager some of the best teams at adjusting defenses mid game have extremely experienced DCs like Jim Schwartz or Wade Philips. There is a ton of nuance to playcalling , even on defense and the Seattle style is a pretty simplistic defensive shell that teams have been working hard to breakdown ever since the Seahawks rose to power.   

Not to excuse Wash for being bad at adjusting , he needs to develop and quick, but just providing some context.  

Also on the Marrone point. Based on everything we know of Marrone he's not gonna dance around issues we have right now. I have no doubt Wash is firmly in his bullseye after that cowboys game , but even if Marrone is focused on getting things right on that end , does Wash have the baseline level of knowledge and ability to right the ship? 

I guess we will see.

I agree, the thing is that inexperienced or not we have(had?) the window now with this defense and we can't allow to have a DC that doesn't go full throttle with it.
The 2nd&9 from the KC goal line with our CB's 10 yards off coverage was an exemple of what we mean. I don't care if it's miscommunication or not, players should know already that you are not playing off in that situation.
The Titans game was another microworld of this, he prepared well for Gabbert and once a one-armed Mariota came in he let him move the chains not spying him, ever. Every damn 3rd down Mariota could just wait, run and get the down.

While I think Marrone will address most of the issues as you said I have my doubts the defensive approach will change much. He said they may have given the players too many "what if" (said that they have their keys and reads but they may have given them too many info to process based on if the team does this or that then change this and that) that may have slowed them down, they were trying to figure that out. But once a reporter asked him about "you played a lot of zone defensively" he went a bit on the defensive and said they played as much man and zone in a way that makes me think that isn't really considered an issue (and as much as I don't like how soft we line up at times that wasn't the only problem against the Cowboys or Chiefs, players made a lot of individual mistakes regardless of man or zone).
Yeah, we'll see. Watson and Texans are a perfect match to see if we have now a clue on how to defend mobile QB's.

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