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Originally Posted by hesscl34
In my opinion, it's all mental. The players are not motivated, and there is unhappiness with the coachign staff and play calling. The players are NOT performing and, in my opinon, they have given up.
.. It sucks!
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At some point, it becomes a mental problem.
But it didn't begin as a mental problem, so the coaching staff has to figure out what went wrong. Obviously injuries play a part, because wherever there is losing, there is injuries.
But if it was all injuries, we wouldn't have to change a thing to be a great team next year. On offense, we appear to be a certain degree of expierence away from the next level, and as JC progresses, we will get there. We are on the right track at least.
On D tho, we either have to give what we have another chance or blow the whole thing up and start fresh. Obviously Gregg Williams CAN call a game, he just for whatever reason hasn't been. Our DT's have been banged up, but we do still lack a great 3rd option there, hopefully we can find a free agent to fix that. Our pass rush has been subpar, but that's always been a problem. What about the linebackers? No one makes plays anymore. Sean Taylor has had a pass all year, but when not running up to stick someone, he just looks like he's got no clue what he's doing. I don't think you can write Archuleta off just yet because he's got the talent. He could come back next year like the player we thought he would be. I'll say the CB's have played well all things considered. Springs was hurt and Rogers has improved his cover skills (he's always been good in the run game). It would be foolish to not bring in another corner next year. Springs' game has nowhere to go but downwards (he was the league's top
cover CB in 2005 even though his playmaking skills left some to be desired, now he's old and hurt).
Schneed makes the point that he has no idea how to fix the D. It looks grim, but because the root of the problems can't even be identified...maybe there is a chance that they are all injury related and our D comes back strong in 2007 with minimal change.
I doubt that though. I feel like our offense will carry us through the next few seasons as we try to rebuild (hopefully, I'm using the right term) the defense.
If our front office tries to quick fix the D, they will only create frusteration. Either add one or two parts for depth and hope we stay healty, or blow the entire thing up. No halfsies!