Twitter: Jaylon Smith: "We need to simplify the playbook and scheme"

[Sydla]

Jaylon needs to shut up and suck it up. He had one good year and now he acts like he’s hot *bleep*. No one besides Griffen has complained about the scheme. It’s either too complicated or too simple. Sometimes, you begin to wonder if it was ever the coaching and if it was just the players all along. I know the coaching was atrocious, but I’m beginning to shift a lot of the blame on this lazy defense. “Waaah my knee!!” “Waaaaah! The defense is too complex for me to learn!! I need to focus on my sun glasses business!!”. You never heard stuff like this going on in the 80s, 90s, even the early 00’s.

That's two players in like two days. And Griffen has a track record in this league of being a very good and productive player, so he's not some slouch throwing pot shots from the cheap seats.

Then couple this with the fact that one of the criticisms that has bounced around with Nolan is that he's overly complex, it's not hard to see that while Smith probably should shut his mouth publicly about this, he's not saying something that hasn't been alleged about Nolan before.

 

[jterrell]

so Jaylon was ASKED IF THEY SHOULD SIMPLIFY And he said yes???

rofl man reporters and headlines....

the defense is minus like 5 starters of course he said they should simplify.

 

[Sydla]

The most successful defense use a hybrid system. Belichek has mastered this hence 20 straight years of a top 10 defense with interchangeable players. Being able to change from a 4-3 to a 3-4 week to week or during the game is a great scheme in theory. I would rather work with Nolan on getting those types of players than throw Nolan out.

Just because a defense is hybrid doesn't mean it's overly complex. Again, this isn't some newfound criticism of Nolan either. Plus, his recent stints as DC had some pretty average to poor defenses.

I think the problem is that most people just don't like Smith so they are lashing out at him. The reality is he may suck but Nolan's system probably sucks too. I'd be more willing to buy into what you are trying to sell if Nolan had a track record of really good defenses. He does not. His defenses have been all over the place with some good ones in Baltimore (but 15 years ago) and mostly average to bad ones in his recent stops as DC.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Can we just please cut this loser?

 

[jterrell]

The most successful defense use a hybrid system. Belichek has mastered this hence 20 straight years of a top 10 defense with interchangeable players. Being able to change from a 4-3 to a 3-4 week to week or during the game is a great scheme in theory. I would rather work with Nolan on getting those types of players than throw Nolan out.

100% true but the issue with multiple systems is you need veterans and are more susceptible to busted plays.
when you play a lot of young guys or back ups you usually simplify.
in fact they have already simplified.
Nolan said they haven't even installed large parts of the defense.

 

[cern]

Hard to install a complicated system with no preseason and a truncated off-season.

Pretty much says it all. Griffen complained about standing up, preferring hand on the ground. Coaches listened and agreed. I like that.

 

[Sydla]

I'll gladly send Jaylon Smith packing as long as Nolan is on the same bus.

 

[Ranching]

lol....Marinelli and Richard was killed for playing simple defense, now you know why. The players can't handle it, they make too many mistakes...lol

It was Garrett's fault.

 

[ondaedg]

When Jaylon Smith shows a willingness to actually do the dirty work that goes along with being a linebacker (stacking and shedding, violently filling gaps), instead of just wanting to run fast, I'll start to care about his opinion. He's the one overrunning and failing to diagnose. Package this turd with Tank for a bag of Doritos and be done.

This. Our backup LB was our best LB Sunday by a country mile.

 

[visionary]

Can’t get rid of this guy fast enough

 

[ondaedg]

Hmmm. Joe Thomas doesn't seem to be having the same problems with the scheme.

Just posted this. Joe actually LOOKED like a linebacker unlike LVE or Jaylon.

 

[Melonfeud]

Hard to install a complicated system with no preseason and a truncated off-season.

+3 points are hereby expeditiously awarded fer' the casually interject worded verbiage of " truncated " !
well, done,amigo

 

[speedkilz88]

so Jaylon was ASKED IF THEY SHOULD SIMPLIFY And he said yes???

rofl man reporters and headlines....

the defense is minus like 5 starters of course he said they should simplify.

And it's likely the coaches already said that they were simplifying things. Reporters are always a step behind asking questions they already have answers for.

But I would like to see the quote used in the thread title. Notice it's not in the tweet?

 

[Dre11]

It was Garrett's fault.

lol.. as we see now you have to admit it...lol

 

[ConstantReboot]

lol....Marinelli and Richard was killed for playing simple defense, now you know why. The players can't handle it, they make too many mistakes...lol

Marinelli's defense, in the beginning, was simple. Then Richard came along and threw off the dynamics of the defense.

You don't need to have a complex defense to be effective.

 

[mrmojo]

Thank god these guys never played defense for Coach Landry, their heads would have a blown a gasket with the Flex.

 

[blueblood70]

There aren't two types of defense - one simple, one complex. It's quite possible we went from a DC who ran vanilla schemes to a DC whose defenses are so overly complex they actually hinder a defense's ability to perform. Again, there has been past criticism of Nolan defenses being overly complex in his desire to be as multi-dimensional as possible.

I think one would have a better argument here that the players are at fault if there wasn't a track record on Nolan of suspect defensive schemes. This was my concern from the moment Nolan was rumored to be the hire at DC. I never liked the hire and thought he was the worst hire of all the new assistants.

meh not hearing it Ryan's defenses and his fathers and brothers were great, until he got here..

the coddling begins..i guess dumbing down defenses for the less fortunate players not smart enough to run them.i remember all the told you so when scandrick, ex players and opponents say they knew what was coming defensively. Refreshing we have coach hard to read defenses and now already after 2 games we want easy again..

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

You would never hear that out of Sean Lee. I know his body has failed him I get it, I just wish Jaylon had his mindset

 

[beware_d-ware]

Nolan got 17 years - 17! - as a DC, until he was demoted to LB coach. He got almost TWICE as many tries as Jason Garrett did to become a good DC and still couldn't succeed. Why do people think he's going to make it now?

McCarthy has a history of staying loyal to overmatched DCs just because they're friends of his. It likely cost him a Super Bowl in Green Bay.

 

[lostar2009]

And this is the reason why we switch to the 4-3 years back.