Quote:If you don't have the players to play your defensive style, change the style until you get those players. Forcing them to do something you know they're not capable of does not make sense.


They're starting Yannick because they missed out on Vernon. If they had gotten Vernon, I doubt Yannick would be seeing the field at all. He is playing because we literally have no one else and it just so happens he's good. Jack should have been starting since week 1 but instead, they put slow man Skuta in there.


This coaching staff also continually has their lineman guard position players and they routinely get burned. This defense is not disciplined (case made by the amount of penalties) and I believe a different HC would be able to take this defense to an even higher level.

I think what's getting lost is that the defense has had woeful talent the last couple of years. Changing schemes would not have saved the majority of players acquired. If they would have gotten Vernon of course he would have started; he's a veteran and he would be commanding a hefty salary. This in no way means they were forced to start Yannick. He's obviously earned it with his play, something wash saw as a possibility when he worked him out privately.



Again, with us playing nickel as often as we have over the course of this month, how much of the field would be have seen to make a difference. He certainly isn't playing above either Poz nor Smith. The best chance was against the Colts who routinely run 2 TE personnel, thus allowing us to stay in base d and keep jack on the field.


If you're talking about having Yannick drop into a zone, that's not at all uncommon. It also helps the defense blitz without having someone like Poz manned up against a wr (something I think we all never want to see again). If you're going to blitz, you have to pick either to run zone behind it or man.


As far as penalties, there have been some head scratchers for sure, but we can't discount the number of outright bad penalties that have given our opponents new life on a drive. That has nothing to do with discipline or coaching. It's also something a new coach would have to contend with. Taking a unit from 24th to 7th is impressive and speaks to the coaching. If, insert your favorite coaching name here, accomplished the same feat, we would all be championing his genius.

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