Quote:They had major changes to the defensive philosophy over the course of the season. They went from a team that relied on dropping back in coverage to a team that relied on blitzing. The only thing that stayed the same was that the players were unable to execute regardless of what was called.


I'm not saying the coaches have no fault, I thought Babich was horrible in some situational play calls, but lets not be disingenuous and pretend like the coaching staff didn't try all sorts of things over the course of the season.


The biggest weakness was the inability of our front four to get consistent pressure on the QB. Like we saw, it doesn't matter what scheme you run, if you can't pressure the QB with your front four, an NFL offense is going to find a way to pick you apart.

Think about what you just wrote, right there.


You said that it would be disingenuous to say that the coaches didn't try different things, but then turned around and said getting consistent pressure from the front four was the main problem.


Now, I'm not saying we never blitzed. In fact we did blitz, on occasion. But here's the problem, as you and everyone else has identified, we couldn't get pressure rushing four. In no game that I watched did we bring pressure on every passing down.


So how can we say the coaches tried everything? Bringing an occasional blitz is not the same as planning a game where the entire game was designed to bring as much pressure as possible.


As far as marrone goes, I have a feeling he's gonna be here for the 2016 season...

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