what would you call it then? one of the other systems the nfl has but we have never used it before?

Let's see......a million systems, 32 teams. :whistling:  That's 31,250 systems per team, no wonder it's so difficult to learn.  We really need to simplify this:

 

Let's tell Joeckel his job under the new system is to protect the QB, that shouldn't be too difficult for a LT to learn.  We could tell the DB's to cover the receivers; would that work, or is it too big a departure from their assignment in all the other systems.  Wait!  We still need a couple of guys to rush the QB.  I seem to recall DE's doing that for other teams, maybe we can steal that idea from their system? 

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When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.

Let's see......a million systems, 32 teams. :whistling:  That's 31,250 systems per team, no wonder it's so difficult to learn.  We really need to simplify this:

 

Let's tell Joeckel his job under the new system is to protect the QB, that shouldn't be too difficult for a LT to learn.  We could tell the DB's to cover the receivers; would that work, or is it too big a departure from their assignment in all the other systems.  Wait!  We still need a couple of guys to rush the QB.  I seem to recall DE's doing that for other teams, maybe we can steal that idea from their system? 

well why hasn't any coach in the history of the nfl ever thought of that? Too bad it's not that simple...

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well why hasn't any coach in the history of the nfl ever thought of that? Too bad it's not that simple...

 

Coaches have figured it out...  Just not coaches residing in Jacksonville for the past 9 years...   :woot:

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well why hasn't any coach in the history of the nfl ever thought of that? Too bad it's not that simple...

Actually it is that simple, that's why is called an excuse. Or can you explain how the Dave n' Gus system is so radically different from every other in the league? What do our players do that no one else does?

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When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.

Does it need to be said again the Browns ruined our best chance of getting a talented veteran during the offseason? We tried as hard as we could to take Alex Mack out of Cleveland and couldn't do it any better. It was just unfortunate that the Browns had enough money to match anything we could offer.

 

If your "best chance of getting a talented veteran during the offseason" is trying to pry one of the best young players in the game, at a premium position, away from a team with a ton of cap room, while he's a Restricted Free Agent, you're probably doing something wrong.

 

Mack was a prayer, and I certainly don't blame Dave for not getting him. I like that he tried. But there were certainly better chances of getting a talented veteran in the offseason.

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Actually it is that simple, that's why is called an excuse. Or can you explain how the Dave n' Gus system is so radically different from every other in the league? What do our players do that no one else does?

well for one they don't cover receivers...It's not so much that the principles of the system are new, it's that the players have never played the zone blocking scheme and this zone type defense, and have the LEO and OTTO...Gus's defensive system is a hybrid that the players have to learn their assignments and places and where they are suppose to go, where they are supposed to be, when and where they let receivers go for someone else to pick up and hope that someone else knows he's supposed to...

 

The zone blocking scheme is much different than the standard just hit the guy in front of you, the guy in front of you might be someone elses assignment and your guy might be the one on the left or right so if you hit the guy in front of you, your man runs right around you without being touched

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