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Originally Posted by jamf
No one was expecting miracles from the coaching staff but I am disappointed we are so methodical on offense and defense. It's disgusting...
You can have a deliberate offense when your defense is playing lights out but great defenses are never methodical, they are attacking. The Ravens were able to win a SB with this design but their defense carried the team.
You can't have a conservative defense and offense and expect to win because you have to have a perfect game from both sides to win.
We play the Giants next. Unfortunately they are a better team even with their injuries. We need to give our players a punchers chance of winning and that means being aggressive early and scrapping our 2 yards and a cloud of dust offense.
Also, we need to have a dynamic game plan. We do the same god damn thing from start to finish even if it doesn't work. Why didn't we stack the line and force Favre to pass? We did not exploit one matchup all day. Rice is back after missing pretty much the whole season and is not in football shape, yet we treated him like Desean Jackson. Harvin is a threat but he has also missed considerable time. We needed to make them try to beat us.
I just don't understand how we can let them run on us with Toby Gerhart.
I hope Haslett is fired at the end of the year because there is too much talent on the defense to be one of the historically worse football teams in history.
We have given up more yards per game than any defense in the last 10 years. Something has got to change at the end of the year.
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I agree with everything you are saying...you read my mind. Another thing about this coaching staff that I don't understand is why they changed the defense the way they did this year. Why didn't they keep the same system, meaning the 4-3, but played a more aggressive scheme. There wasn't anything wrong with the defense for the past two years to three years. The only problem, no turnovers, but that can be coached. I feel like we are trying to put square pegs into round holes by playing this defense...