Blache's Defensive Scheme

defense is a funny thing...you can have the most vanilla defense and tear things up...or the most exotic one and be horrible at it.. it just depends on your players and how they exectute

Ok this is a great point of interest to me...because snyder as brilliant as a man as i think he is...(lets be honest when we were all ready to jump ship after spurrier he pulled out the gibbs card to keep everyone on board...when gibbs left and we are all down about run run pass he brought in dr z to have the exciting 'west coast offense')
Do you honestly think that he has that much faith in the coaches to replace players snyder has invested millions into for ones that dont work? Hell no...if blache has a horrible season..guaranteed we will look for a new d coordinator..if zorn does as well i am not too optimistic they wont buy out his contract. Im not sure that this is the wrong or right way to go about things, but to be honest the only coach snyder has brought in that he has had faith in was gibbs.

I don't remember Snyder ever being shy about spending millions for new players......Deon Sanders...Jeremiah Trotter....Adam Archuletta.....etc.

its not about being shy...but i think that they are in a phase where they want to let the smoke clear a bit. Im just saying they work more for the players than the coach

I haven't seen enough of Blache's system to make a educated call either way. I have seen Blache's rankings as a D coordinator w/ the Bears which are ok, not great, average. Only time will tell and it's to early to make judgements on it.

I'm a little unsure of what to expect. On the one hand everyone was saying that everyone on D is back and it is going to be the same even w/out GW. On the other hand, it's two separate schemes and two different coaches.

its not about being shy...but i think that they are in a phase where they want to let the smoke clear a bit. Im just saying they work more for the players than the coach

You're probably right but at some point I'd like to see them quit firing coaches before they have a chance to implement their systems and get the players best suited for it.

So far I have no problem with the defesnse. GB has been in this league a long time and he knows what he's doing. I trust him. We don't need to dial up all these complex blitzes and coverages to be a good defense. But I'll also say this. This defense really misses Daniels and I hope we see more of Evans on run downs.

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I hope this isn't a trend and it gets fixed quickly. I had a concern when Blache was originally hired that his defensive rankings in Chicago were not good or trending upwards during his time there. A few folks blew my concern off as injuries and personnel, if things don't straighten out we may be in for a run of poor defensive rankings while Blache is DC.

I agree with Doughtydoubter we need to shore up the DT posistion. Griffin is not what he was 3 or 4 years ago and Montgomery and Golston show flashes at times. Look at the impact guys like Marcus Stroud and Kris Jenkins are making for thier teams. That and if we could get someone to replace Doughty we would have the personnel for this "beat your man" D. Hopefully Horton will develop soon.

I like what I saw...bend but don't break. Once Springs is on the field we'll get even better.

I agree with Doughtydoubter we need to shore up the DT posistion. Griffin is not what he was 3 or 4 years ago and Montgomery and Golston show flashes at times. Look at the impact guys like Marcus Stroud and Kris Jenkins are making for thier teams. That and if we could get someone to replace Doughty we would have the personnel for this "beat your man" D. Hopefully Horton will develop soon.

I think ur on point regarding the DTs. I mean they are the ones that need to push the o-line and disrupt the running game. I think last season there were complaints that the DTs were not doing much of a pass rush either, so they need to step it up.