Quote:Its a scheme that every team in the league knows how to beat fairly easily. Its probably the simplest scheme in the NFL , its effective in Seattle because they have multiple all pros at a few spots. While yes the execution isn't there , the players are being put in bad spots due to the scheme.

I have to go along with this. It's a good scheme only if you have enough 'all-pro' level players and those players are in the right positions to be useful. I guess this is an example of the HC 'sticking with his guns' even when it's obvious to everyone that we don't have the players on our defense to make it work. We do have good players on our defense... but not the one's needed to make the modified 'Seattle' defense work here. Clearly a case of trying to make the square peg fit into the round hole instead of finding a round peg or cut a square hole.

 

And why is this so? Maybe it's a reluctance to move away from what he had success with in Seattle. Maybe he's just stubborn. Maybe he just doesn't know how to run anything else. Maybe he refuses to change because it would be an admission that he was wrong and his pride keeps him from doing so. Maybe because he keeps hoping to get the personnel to run his defense scheme but Dave can't get what isn't available. Or maybe we do have adequate personnel to run the scheme but they just haven't learned it very well yet. We don't know.

 

What we can pretty well count on though is that if this issue isn't fixed quick then achieving at least an 8-8 season is not going to happen and Gus can say goodbye to coaching in Jacksonville.

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