HoofHearted

They did blitz yesterday. Put our back-up DBs in man coverage. It didn't work out real well as I'm sure you could already figure.

It's the quickest hitting play with the least amount of chance to allow a defender to shoot a gap for a TFL and the ball is only exchanged once.

What's the adjustment that should be made to stop that run yesterday? When you are out of phase this is what is taught - play the receivers hands not the ball.

It's been a tackling issue. Scheme hasn't been the problem. So you want to put our 6th round, 7th round, and undrafted back-up DBs in 1 on 1 man coverage? EDIT: We tried this and got burned on it multiple times, btw.

What is the scheme adjustment to be made in this situation? We're starting back-ups in over half of our defense - it is what it is. Keep everything in front of you and don't allow the big play. Missed tackle.

If it was truly called on Dawkins it was a bad call. The DE Dawkins was blocking tripped over someone else's foot and fell which made it look worse than what it was. However, Q held for sure on the same play so it's a wash.

Guys are definitely open - Allen is pushing the ball downfield. I think that Steelers game was the worst thing that could have happened to him. He pushed the ball multiple times when he had better options underneath, but the Steelers were so bad we hit on them anyway. That success makes him think he can do it every time.

I think they confused him. Jets showed a double A gap pressure with Cover 1 pre-snap alignment and post-snap rolled Cover 2 and dropped the backers. Allens eyes looked Gabe the whole way. Think he thought he was gonna have a 1-on-1. The unfortunate part is they had a Smash concept to that side which is a Cover 2 beater. If Sauce carries he throws the out to Cook. What REALLY sucks is he had Dawson 1-on-1 with a backer in the middle of the field...

That play wasn't a personnel issue. It wasn't even a fit issue. It was a missed tackle issue.

This past game there were easy outlets. Josh didn't take them. Instead he pushed the ball downfield. Josh has been the issue the last 6 quarters.

We do have a front 7 - It's our defensive line, two linebackers, and our nickel. Guys, the box is determined by the call and the offensive formation!!! It doesn't matter what personnel you trot out there. If they give you true empty you're going to have a 5 man box regardless of personnel. Likewise if they give you an Ace set with two tight ends you'll get a 7 man box with potential to add more from the Safeties based on coverage. PERSONNEL GROUPINGS ARE NOT FORMATIONS!

I'll say it for the 100th time - Nickel personnel wasn't the issue on the final drive. Taron Johnson being in the game instead of another linebacker did not make a difference. The lapses came from mostly front 7 players on the defensive line. I can not make this any more clear.

Sure, but I was genuinely curious as to why the poster landed on Dorsey being the issue.

Buffalos defense has allowed an average of 10.1 points in the 1st half of games which ranks 12th in the league. They’ve allowed an average of 3.9 in the second half which ranks 1st in the league. If that’s not being able to make adjustments then I don’t know what else to tell you.

Go to the Edmunds thread where I broke every one of those big plays down. The majority of the issues were missed tackles/fits by box players at the line of scrimmage. Taron Johnson wasn’t the problem.

They didn’t though. They sat in 11 personnel the majority of the game.

By design our Nickels more often than not are force players. They are covered by a 3 and 5 technique so that they are not interior gap fitters. In other words they are protected. It’s no different than a Safety force coming down from 10 yards. Their job is to turn everything back inside to the big bodies. Safeties are C gap fitters in the run all the time. We just walk ours up instead of playing it from depth. At the end of the day offensive run blocking schemes are designed to force DBs to make tackles. That has and always will be the case.

Why do you say this? Explain.

He's talking about the corners and safeties, not the Nickel, which is why I am asking why he believes the front 7 personnel dictates more or less run responsibility for those guys. As far as our scheme - it's not "designed to stop the pass" - it's designed to put better athletes on the field. Our issue in the run game hasn't been with our Nickel getting mauled. Our issue has been our DL not commanding double teams the past two weeks or not even attempting to get hands on OL so that they can't free release to second level defenders. The notion that adding a single LB that weighs 20lbs. more but moves slower will solve the problems in the run game is absurd. I think people hear 4-3 personnel and assume that it's a "formation" like an offensive formation. That's not how defense works. Alignments are based on the call and what formation the offense comes out in.

I want to know your thought process here. How does 4-2 personnel "put a more intense tackling penalty on our secondary" than 4-3 personnel?

They did. His name is Matt Milano.

The personnel on the field has nothing to do with their role in run support. The scheme/offensive formation dictates that.

Everyone since Baltimore has played really wide high box players (edge rushers), but since KC Josh has been reluctant to step up into the pocket that is being given to him. He’s throwing off his back foot a lot more. Everything else mechanically has looked normal.

Allen hasn’t been stepping up into the pocket since the KC game.

I dunno, I saw multiple times today that Allen had an underneath route wide open and he chose to push the ball downfield instead. That one that was thrown way behind Diggs late in the game on a 2nd down that almost got picked off was one of them. It's frustrating to watch.