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What has changed with our Defense?

Phinadict

Phinadict

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don't even want to discuss the offense, our defense has turned into hot garbage this year. so what's different this year vs. last year? What the hell happened?
 
Nothing really… couldnt stop the run last year and this year its the same.

We need a new scheme… a few new pieces on the d-line and LB’s and its a fix. I hate the 3-4 defense we run… i guess its alot in reality LOL
 
Lilseb561 said:
The corners took a huge step down, there's no pass rush, and the LB core is hot garbage. They love playing a soft zone defense the whole game and the QBs have 20 min to throw the ball.
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IMO the lack of a pass rush is the most glaring thing. But some of that is scheme and only rushing 3 or 4.

The soft zone has been a mainstay all season. I’ve complained about it since game 1 when they let a rookie QB dink and dunk them up and down the field.

We only ended up winning that game due to a late fumble when NE was about to win.

The defensive strategy is baffling. Especially since it hasn’t worked. And why would it?
 
I think Howard was fully healthy last season and we played an easy schedule against weak QBs. Howard is clearly banged up and checked out because I think he knows he's getting traded and/or he needs to stay healthy for his next contract. I think that's pretty much it. It doesn't take much when coaching is bad and Flores is a fraud like I've been saying all along so he's not going to scheme us into being a great defense.
 
EJay said:
IMO the lack of a pass rush is the most glaring thing. But some of that is scheme and only rushing 3 or 4.

The soft zone has been a mainstay all season. I’ve complained about it since game 1 when they let a rookie QB dink and dunk them up and down the field.

We only ended up winning that game due to a late fumble when NE was about to win.

The defensive strategy is baffling. Especially since it hasn’t worked. And why would it?
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Yes the biggest issue is scheme. I suppose it made sense if we could get pressure with just 3 guys, but how many players are on that level to do that? Basically, we're forcing the secondary to cover for 20 seconds. Not to mention, we have LB's who couldn't cover a broom with too much responsibility. Baker is terrible if he's not blitzing. IDC if we had prime Deion Sanders and Revis, if you give a QB 20 seconds to throw, he's going to find somebody open. Thiss team is poorly built. We should have built from the trenches and had the pass rush and run defense be the main aspect. Instead, we invested so much in a secondary when teams can easily just run us over and exploit the zone.
 
EJay said:
IMO the lack of a pass rush is the most glaring thing. But some of that is scheme and only rushing 3 or 4.

The soft zone has been a mainstay all season. I’ve complained about it since game 1 when they let a rookie QB dink and dunk them up and down the field.

We only ended up winning that game due to a late fumble when NE was about to win.

The defensive strategy is baffling. Especially since it hasn’t worked. And why would it?
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Yup. Check out that first pass to Pitts on the last drive. Pitch and catch ease.
 
We got a lot of turnovers last year and gave up tons of yardage. The turnovers won’t happen just like that and you need some bad bounces and bad luck to get them. We were never that good on D
Giving up all the yardage once again but not getting the lucky bounces
 
Tackling is atrocious. We look like a bunch of guys who are actually scared to lay a hit (besides Holland). Always getting gashed up the gut on runs. No QB pressure and when there is they always escape and extend the play. 3rd down defense is miserable.
 
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