We've all speculated about Garrett interfering with scheme or inserting himself and his ideologies out of fear for his job or not being able to stand seeing other coaches be successful without his help, well Kavon Frasier just alluded to this.
"Frazier also brought up how Richard relied almost exclusively on Cover 3 and man, when in his first two years the defense had also used a lot of Cover 2 and 4. For those who remember that far back, it was reminiscent of how the very complicated Rob Ryan defense keep coming apart back when he was the DC. Although he wasn’t as sure about this, he also thought that Richard may have had his hand forced in some ways by Garrett or even the ownership in some decisions."
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Though i wasn't all sure it was Garrett himself that was an issue with regards to Richard, -but i always thought he wasn;t able to operate
like they expected him to as the former engineer for the Legion of Boom, did as far as i'm concerned.
i thought his feud and mutiny with LB coach Ben Bloom that even led to the LB coach being excused (exiled?) away from the team
had to have an effect on the players and likely lead to players freelancing and being confused on what coach to paying attention to.
Whispers were Richard wanted to hire his own LB coach, but was thwarted away either management ( or Garrett?)
-and by the way, ole red head head coach and overseer didn't seem to do a damn thing with stepping and put his foot down on resolving the mutiny and bitter in-battle with the defensive coaches.
- and who knows if he had to be submissive to whatever gap scheme and way of operating the front four of Marinelli.- which know now the
end result of how that ended up for us.
- Marinelli handled the front four while Richard handled the back seven. Marinelli held the title as DC, but the signals and the play of the LBs and secondary was the responsibility of Richard. only he was limited by the opposition of Bloom, and forced to have to deal with whatever marinelli was determined to use and coach
up front.
- While we saw a great improvement from Byron Jones, per Richard immediately switching him from safety to CB, Awuzie never turned the corner, nor Brown,
nor Xavier or Heath. In the end especially when the big losses like buffalo, bears came in, i thought Richard eventually lost the team and didnt respond to him
(after the team seemed to be detoured towards him more than Marinelli, ala sideline meetings and rant)
- just as i thought the same way management mishandled the Matt Eberflus "co-defensive coordinator" pass game coordinator, etc" .. they may have mishandled some of the Kris Richard workings. They wanted Richard commit to some of the things they currently wanted to do here, not committ to him and re-work and change
how they play defense here. If they wanted this defense to be the Legion of Boom, commit to him fully and let him change and re-work the defense from beginning to end. Not just a page on Byron or Xavier, and let the Marinelli and Bloom do what they want.
- Just -in- my- Humble- Opinion. ..