(09-25-2024, 02:02 PM)imtheblkranger Wrote:

(09-25-2024, 12:54 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: Doug knows this Ryan guy is messing everything up with his man to man junk defense. We don’t have the horses to run man across the board.

Good chance he gets fired before mid-season.

Nielsen has had massive success everywhere he’s been. Now all of a sudden he sucks when he’s here?

Not buying it.

Meh. He worked his way up the ranks as a defensive line coach. He was Dennis Allen's assistant head coach in 2021 with the Saints and still coached the defensive line. 

He was then bumped up in 2022 to Co-Defensive coordinator with Dennis Allen and then officially became a Defensive Coordinator on his own for the first time just last year alone in 2023 for the Falcons. 

So, he's still very vanilla when it comes to NFL coaching as a DC. Much like the Caldwell hire. I don't know. This might be another head scratcher from Doug Pederson. 

Looks like Doug's defensive knowledge is booty overall and he was carried by a good DC in Jim Schwartz with his time spent with the Eagles.

This is worth mentioning though. He HAS Kris Richard as his secondary coach. Kris at least had some good success in Seattle as their DC for a good three, four year stretch. That might need to be a switch to take into consideration if Nielsen doesn't change his ways moving forward.

The tinhorns are going to do the same exact thing Miami did and Buffalo did to this secondary. Quick, in and out stuff with the RB's involved in the passing game with isolation routes on our LB core. He has to mix up his coverages better and he has to mix up his blitz schemes better or we're cooked.

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