Quote:First off, I think it is the scheme. I don't think in this day and age, a 3 deep zone works. If you watch any other team play besides the Jaguars, you'll see that rushing 4 only as your base and rarely bringing 5 or more get's you light up. No team can sustain success throughout an entire game by just rushing 4 and playing zone on 80% of the defensive plays.


You have to blitz, and you have to blitz consistently.


Second off... Has anyone wondered if maybe Gus Bradley never really fully mastered how to coach this Seattle Defense? He spent 3 years in Seattle, was that enough time to fully understand what that defense was all about? I just asking because, it seems like the defenders are pretty poorly coached.


What I mean by that is this: After re-watching Sunday's game, when we were playing the Seattle D, on almost every key 3rd down, there was confusion by our LB's or Secondary seconds before the snap. Like we didn't know the proper alignment we should be running.


The other thing I noticed is that our LB'ers don't seem comfortable playing zone. They get caught standing around as recivers are literally a few feet away from them waiting for the ball to come.


I think the scheme is terrible, but it also seems like the players are lost out there quite a bit of the time.

The part about the linebackers in zone is something I've noticed aswell and they talked about it on Jaguars today.


They appear to be just standing in their zone regardless of where the receivers are instead of moving towards to the receiver to make it tougher to catch.


Looks like they're being told to maintain the structure of the scheme rather than to try make plays.

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