WideNine

I think it may be more this along with the play (in our system) of some of the guys in front of him. He excels more at press man-coverage and less so as a zone DB that understands spacing an where he needs to be at all times. That being said, it would be nice to have a lock-down corner that could take away their "guy" and allow us to play some single-high and add some help in the box to stop the runs and short passes from turning into long-gainers.

I agree with many of your posts, but honestly expected more out of Von yesterday and I hold no personal grudges against the man. He was AWOL and there were plenty of throws where Tua had to go to his second or third read and we got no heat on him. Not just Von, I expected more out of our DEs in general generating some heat or just getting their hands up in throwing lanes to the flats and tipping a few of the flurry of short passes QBs have been able to make against us. Needs fixing across the line and IMO Von has not nearly earned any of that big paycheck OBD cut him. Honestly not happy with the defense as a whole. I know McD's philosophy is light boxes 2-high safeties so our DBs are not on an island playing nickel with the LBs in coverage. The idea is not giving up the big passing play, but giving up some runs, but we are getting eaten alive and even when you would expect some kind of adjustment in the red zone where the bend needs to stop bending - we break and give up scores. I don't see the point of giving up 90 yard drives that end up in TDs and eats up all the clock and leaves Allen and our offense cooling their heels. So Von was only one of the things that I found annoying with this lazy approach to this vanilla defensive game planning. Coaches may have to build in some mechanisms for recognizing personnel grouping/packages and occasionally doing some different things to stop the runs or the short passes for long gains. Or we need the players that can execute McD's 4-man front/light box defense and tighten up when needed in the red zone.

That would be like getting fined for hitting a dude's fist with your face

Groot Rousseau chasing down speedy Waddle and bringing him down. Icing on the cake.

You aren't wrong about our run D and how much we give up with short passes to the flats... They need a fix or we will see that again if we cannot play cover 0 against better receivers and load the box. But enjoy this one. A win is a win and this may not have been close sans those phantom calls erasing our early TD.

Bass was probably as sick of his fail as we were and just reached that F-it zone. Cleared the bar with like 12 ft to go...could have been from farther away.

Voodoo Chaos theory???

You have to be kidding me. Bass we love you.

For having a defensive HC we have a pretty bad "D". Have not been clutch for a long time.

No fear. We have Bass.

Behind the LOS where they need to be making more plays not 8 yards downfield each zone run, toss sweep, screen, or all the passes to the flat.

Von today.

Morris only catches TDs right?

Alert Alert means check down. Apparently.

True. The fear of Hill and Waddle keep guys back.

They had the last game where he chewed us up to and our defensive staff came up with this. They don't invest or prioritize very highly run stoppers outside of going out an getting aging Jones.

This DL is soft and far too light to hold up against teams that want to run and have some horses to do it.

The bar is set pretty low.

Isn't there supposed to be someone in the booth preventing the bad challenges? Does McD tell him shush, I got this?

He is less effective against the run...teams either let him run past the play with some delay handoffs, or constantly wash him out with wham blocks. He held his own on a zone run, but no one was there for the cut back. McD's D is about light boxes and defending the pass not about to change.

Dion on a commercial for Bills teaching kids to eat healthy?? Hmmm?

That is what happens when second level guys try to make a stop on a RB with a full head of steam... Did someone say open things up? Was a great call against a loaded box and blitz.

Yep, because that is the distance that HS kids can make it from...

Hamlin providing zero deep help and jogging over.... No way we don't provide help over top vs Hill.

Was good for a few of those each game can be get a sack or a run stop?