Interesting Comments from Carlos Rogers

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Originally Posted by tryfuhl

Exactly; I've been hearing a lot of that lately too, coaches being faulted for this, on offense and defense both from football guys.

I thought that Rogers preferred man, but maybe not. Maybe it was just too much and he wanted better balance. Very interesting to hear him say we were blitzing a lot in man but getting no penetration.

GridIron, I know what you mean. You're all pumped and ready to go with no indication that you won't be starting and they don't tell you until the game is about to begin? Tell the guy earlier in the week and let him get it out of his system; there you've got him heated and confused right before the damn game.

Williams played a lot of man, and we played a lot of zone last year, but the coverages the last two years have been predominantly "odd" coverages. Which mean that Rogers/Smoot don't have any help, and that their first responsibility is to not get beat deep.

Theoretically, Landry should be the deepest man, but he was basically a non factor back there anyway. Rather than adjust and allow Rogers to play closer to the line of scrimmage by moving Landry, we just backed Landry deeper and had Rogers play Hall-style.

Which is why, in my estimation, his coverage numbers look like Hall's this year. Blache's pass defense: when in doubt, back up.