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well, you miss fewer tackles when guys don't have to run far and fast to get to the ball carrier. so the old new england 3-4 d with gargantuan linebackers and rough dirty safeties will miss fewer tackles. part of that is because they selected for and emphasized tackling more, part is because it's easier for a bigger guy to tackle provided they don't have to chase teh ball as much, and partly because in that kind of d, fewer guys have a shot at the ball, so you might miss 2 tackles and the ball goes 80s for a td, but in our d you can have 4 missed tackles on a 10 yard pitch and catch (where the 5th guy made it). sanfran has a very similar d to ours, albeit better, so you saw that if you watched them vs cincy. quick passes get completed in the soft parts of the zone (cinci is on fire right now) and then 4 guys rally to the ball and maybe 1 or 2 of them make the hit. we don't have the players nor the coaches to run a different kind of scheme, and they type (not exact) scheme we run is most popular right now to take away the big pass play, and to a lesser extend to stop qbs running as much (more zone than man). everybody plays nickel base in the nfl now tho. w our injuries mcd has to earn his paycheck and use some smoke and mirrors to fool the o. we have trouble vs teams like cinci when we are healthy on d, let alone w a mash unit.

adding jaylon and eventually cutting/injury settling tre is a great move. assuming we can get some 1 tech from harry phillips (won't cost much) then he and jaylon really helps the d. if we can slime and slide around and get like devante adams or hopkins, that would put us over the top. if hopkins is cheap now, he and a corner and a 1 tech is exactly what we need.

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mcd needs to plan and prepare who we have to slow down cincy. it is absolutely possible, and will require some surprises and good execution. on the other side, we need some balance running and passing and just be merciless trucking on them and going for it on 4th and short all day. 10+ carries for allen and we win.

seeing cinci and kc yesterday, the biggest thing i notice is that cinci has an o designed to beat the cover 2/deep shell, disguise coverage stuff. they do it with really fast accurate timing passes, that ball is out of there so fast, but not necessarily to dump offs. they also run power at pass rushers. to beat them, aside from allen and the o having a night, our D (corch claps really) needs to win the game of rock paper scissors pre and post snap.

it's a good word to use in the place of field, and you know this. don't let the nature of your name corrupt you. you never go full chaos.

its a structural issue in the d tho. guys guys and often dbs screaming down the pitch to fill in gaps and make tackles, it will always result in more misses.

facts. I like the kinda takes you (and alpha and a few others) post. kind of gut feel stuff mixed w observable data. not the like more structured/theoretical stuff we are all inundated with. i lose my ish at dorsey, and then i look at our stats for his entire term here, and they are basically just like dabol but more consistent, so i think he just needs a boot in the butt to elimiate the bad plays

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our team is horrible in key situational football scenarios. for all our ability to score at the end of halfs, allen is what, 0-6 in over time games? we have competent coaches all week, but on game day we have some real morons.

I didn't agree w this at first, and frankly not certain i do now, but this is a good point. to me the real failing of dorsey tonight was showing a lack of feel for the game. 2nd and long runs out of shot gun for no gain/loss, shot gun run on 3rd and inches at the goal line, and this goofy quick screen to the te on 4th and 1 on the goal line is just all a bit goofy. if allen sneaks 2 times in a row, i'd say we have about a 90% chance of getting over a yard. I didn't agree w this at first, and frankly not certain i do now, but this is a good point. to me the real failing of dorsey tonight was showing a lack of feel for the game. 2nd and long runs out of shot gun for no gain/loss, shot gun run on 3rd and inches at the goal line, and this goofy quick screen to the te on 4th and 1 on the goal line is just all a bit goofy. if allen sneaks 2 times in a row, i'd say we have about a 90% chance of getting over a yard.

I didn't agree w this at first, and frankly not certain i do now, but this is a good point. to me the real failing of dorsey tonight was showing a lack of feel for the game. 2nd and long runs out of shot gun for no gain/loss, shot gun run on 3rd and inches at the goal line, and this goofy quick screen to the te on 4th and 1 on the goal line is just all a bit goofy. if allen sneaks 2 times in a row, i'd say we have about a 90% chance of getting over a yard.

i like the guy, and he's great to watch when he's doing well, but he's honestly a square peg in a round hole and it's not working. he never caught a td in college, played on a team w dk and aj, so we just assumed he wasn't targetted as much. he's a sick athlete, but not a sick football player. our offense is better with other guys on the field, now that we have kinkaid at least.

We're such a stupid loser team sometimes

who are these people defending the athletic, show yourselves and justify your support!

i really have to cancel my subscription. such a garbage rag.

i agree w the above, but as it has been pointed out, our d is playing awful and that is mcd's calling card. if he doesn't get the d turned around hard w a quickness, then im gonna count myself among the haters and say we need to move on from him.

the pats smart plan and allen's bad pick on the first play is why we didn't boat race the pats. if we had 3 more not terrible drives we put up like 35 points. the d being utter cheeks is why we lost. our d has sucked monkey member since the miami game. this is on mcd. losing top players means we won't be a top 5 d, i get it, but if your claim to fame is being a genius dc, you gotta get what you have to about average, and be able to stop a team cold a couple times a game when needed. vs jax and the pats, we just got trucked.

i get blackpilled in the moment, im guilty of that. looking at this team the way a handicapper does, the defense simply has to get back to competency, and you have the match up nightmare we've been for 4 seasons now. at times it feels like it will never happen, but adding a guy or two before the deadline would help, DT followed by corner and then WR (or RT, but i don't think that's possible right now) would make the biggest impact. if our d just pulled its head out on a couple drives we win 2 more games even with the trash we have put up. i just hope mcd can get taht going, but my faith is not high at the moment.

i keep thinking the o is falling apart, but the more i read and look into it, the more awful the d looks. a couple early scores will help w that, but mcd has to get the guys who are healthy lined up and going the right places.

the handicappers still have us as big favs, like we were the last two weeks. i think the read through is vegas figures we will right out defensive struggles, which will lead to us running up the score on teams again. i hope they are right, because we have dumped so much into the d, we have to get some kind of return

i think you misread that alpha. those offensive numbers are only weeks 5-7! i rewatched some stuff from those games. the issue is our D is doing what it did in allen's first year here, just getting boat raced constantly. that was the year mcd stepped in and took duties (from time to time) from frazier. i really hope he can right this ship like he did that one, because our d is just the worst it's been since then. missing guys or not, we let mc jones dog walk us on like 3 or 4 different drives. if we are built to stop the big play, we can't just not allow it over the top, we have to do something to prevent it underneath too. screens and sweeps going for 30 yards due to lack of flowing to the ball is just inexcusable. it's basic football and our coaches have to get who they have healthy to play it.

if the o just features cook and kinkaid, along w diggs and a runner in allen, it isn't possible to stop it consistently.

i think this kid is a star, if we pass to him 7 times a game he will lead the nfl. the whole EP offense is based around match ups and a lot of that is TE. i really want him, diggs, cook, and allen to be the whole show.

dorsey is bothersome, but honestly, his offensive stats last year and this year are close enough to dabol's it's not like we lost andy reid and picked up dennison. the big issue, and it was an issue under dabol too, is that we just don't have a scheme that puts us in an advantage position. everything new england did vs us on d and on o was a function of scheme and execution of that scheme. pre snap reads, basic play action, screens and sweeps when linebackers weren't being disciplined, easy quick developing passes based on the pre snap line up, etc. for us, it seems like we just call something, which nearly every second down is the wrong thing and the d has it dead, or we go hurry up and allen just uses allen powers to do allen things. we would be 2 wins better if we just elimated the bad play on offense as much as can be done. but without a base/identity to fall back on and to get ahead of the sticks, every play we have is like a flip of a magic 8 ball, might work, might not, and we have no idea when we flip it.