It's absolutely not Kendricks role to have edge responsibility on that play. No chance. And Mazi isn't even in the A gap on that first play and Overshown is on the other side of the defense
Yes it is, but he is poorly aligned for it.
2wr with a Y off the LOS, someone at the 2nd level should have that read and follow him across the formation, often times that's a read your middle backer would take. My guess it that's supposed to be Wilson from the Safety spot, but I can only guess on that. It's either really poor defensive preparation or this was a missed assignment at the 2nd level IMO. Even if Parsons sets the edge and gets on the outside shoulder of the pulling TE we are still complaining because of the massive gap open there.
Both safeties followed the WRs in motion. Hookers guy trailed the play and was behind the QB so he can't get there and Wilson followed his man to the other side of the field so how is he supposed have containment on the side he vacated?
Good assessment. I was intrigued by Jourdan Lewis’ post game comments where he made it crystal clear that they did not have a good day of practice on the final day of preparation. That is usually a clear sign that a team is not prepared. He implied that some guys just aren’t acting like professional football players…studying film, practicing hard, etc.
First off I said 2wr set, it was 3wr, my bad. But anyways on the motion it carried Jordan Lewis to the strong side, someone has to be responsible for the Y there, they simply have to be. If it were play action or RPO instead of a straight run that man would have gone uncovered for possibly an even bigger gain than Lamar got on the run. Its a similar issue on that play action a few plays later. No one accounts for the TE off the play action. Its either extremely poor game prep from Zimmer or these guys at the 2nd level are the most undisciplined group in football.
yes, but what exactly is being done to fix it??? Hey guys lets go out and get em next week we're proud of you???
Agree completely. This weeks game should reveal a lot about this team. If they get down early again I would expect a lot of quitting from this team. Defensively players are either confused by their responsibilities, or have simply gone rogue and are doing their own thing. Its really so difficult to say which it is, but I think that either way it falls on coaching for not getting it fixed. It then falls on Jerry for having these guys coach on 1 year deals, because this potential doomsday scenario we are up against is exactly what happened last time he did this.
Wish I had an answer there. Good news is its a short week against a lesser opponent so they have a chance to get some good vibes going again. Bad news is its a short week so they dont have much time to truly fix things.
It has been that way in Dallas since Jimmy left. Hell Troy said it was exactly why he retired back then. Nothing has changed in the 30 years sense.
are these vibes really good, I want us to play against someone that we struggled with like SF beat them and I'll start to believe we're turning the page (You see how I wrote this, to avoid claiming that an NFL is just going to be a cake walk=NYG) lol
I agree, regardless of what happens this week we need to see it against better teams, but sometimes you have to crawl, then walk, then run. This team has reverted back to the crawling stage where they simply need to get a victory under their belt, buy into process a little bit (I kind of hate myself for using that line), and just get a few things to build off of for next week.
I thought i would get criticized for saying that.
That's the thing even on just those handful of plays, it seems there are breakdowns across the board. Like Baldy explained those were basic plays the Ravens run regularly and looked so unprepared for them. Poor game prep from Zimm, guys not understanding their assignments, guys going rouge trying to play heroball, not buying into the scheme, or just lack of personal prep from the players, a combination of these? Can they fix it? Maybe, but it starts with the players themselves, understand your assignments and do your job and then we can adjust from there, but disheartening that the entire defense looks so out of sync.
Calling Bill Bellicheck!!
