Well, maybe not ignored, but under-complained about. Our CB and S health, both concern me right now in general, and especially so against the Saints this week. The underwhelming play of Bruce Carter in coverage is something that only gets mentioned in a context where people are complaining about Ernie Sims, but it's probably one of the top three disappointments for me with the defense this season. The play of our Safeties in pass coverage is still nothing to write home about, but the topic of maybe taking snaps from Barry Church to give some opportunities to one or both of the rookies is worth mentioning. As is the lift, or lack thereof we're likely to get when Demarcus Ware gets back into the lineup.
Basically, I'm interested in what we might do to improve the effectiveness of the pass defense for when we play the better teams in the league, because that's gotten us beat in the SD, DEN, and DET games (whereas the KC game was a very good defense that hampered our offensive effectiveness, and turnovers). Those are three good QBs who've just beaten us, and we've still got Brees, Rodgers, and then the prospect of improved play from the NFCE QBs to contend with the second half of the year.
The stuff about the number of runs that were called in a victory today, or about the play calling in general is, in my opinion, almost a non-issue. I did have a beef today with the play action on third and forever that ended in a sack that nobody's really mentioning, but, generally, I think it's silly that any significant people really believe two guys as experienced as Jason Garrett and Bill Callahan honestly don't know what they're doing in terms of putting together an offensive game plan. It's one thing to not like the plan. I'm personally not a big fan of the design of either our offense or our defense. But it's another, entirely, to pretend like they guys actually don't know what they're doing.
