along with replacing Eberflus.
I think the bigger problem is your last words,
It's eberPOO,
he's unwilling to play a pressure defense, there's a reason that even Mike Zimmer last year had so many sacks, it mostly was after mid season, when he got most of his players back, and they weren't great in most areas, but they definitely turned the ball over and got sacks, because he was willing to play a pressure defense, he saw that at least they could be good at 1 thing because he can create pressure matt Eberfpoo doesn't understand that, if you don't have your elite pass rusher ,you must create team defense ,team pass rush, you need to bring it..
He knew this early on ,and it's shocking of you start a game like the game plan was to pressure Goff and then you have a couple plays against you, so you revert back to playing what looks like a really weak version of prevent defense, all friggin game ,this is why you're bad on 3rd down, because you're not creating pressure, you're not getting home, you can get home, i've seen games where we've had five sacks ,4 sacks ,multiple sacks, Then you revert back to passive defense if that does not work..
That is the bigger problem The pressure isn't creating turnovers 'cause there's no pressure there's no turnovers they usually go hand in hand and turnovers are really the key to most games you win the turnover battle you usually win we're not getting any turnovers we're lucky to have an offense sometimes to be able to keep us in high scoring games without the help of short fields and turnovers scores from the defensive special teams are non existent...
Last year. even with Mike Zimmer he was able to do that pressure and turnovers help see offense so much that we were in games even with Cooper Rush...
Any solid quarterback in the NFL if you don't put pressure on him, if you don't make him feel uncomfortable ,they will stand back there even with only six inches of room, and get the ball off,
and you're right the back end may not be perfect but they can't protect that long, It's a little above to be honest, but most of what we saw in the Lions 3 Qtrs were all on that.. I
don't know why he refuses to keep the pressure on, by creating it ,you have to do it by scheme versus organically, when you have your war daddy, we lost our war daddy...
I think our guys are good enough to get home, you just need to be more creative on how that gets done, and Mike Zimmer was better at it in a year where most of the statistics look the same on paper too this year, except for that one, turnovers and sacks.
This is Mike Nolan all over again, and somehow, he seems to have his job protected at least publicly.
I Really don't know how Jerry feels behind closed doors and Stephen, somebody has to see a systemic..... Sure, we need to add players...
Just like it looks so easy for Dan Quinn to walk in with a relatively the same team, and take Mike Nolans terrible defense, and in one year make them at least competitive, make them not be the biggest problem, and now you add special teams to it, and this what happens all that and our offense is so good that with ten minutes left in the lions game we still were only down by three points..
We're talking about it, if you can just have an average defense find something one thing they can create ,and do it consistently, it don't care about the mistakes on the back end, I don't care if you bring pressure ,and get burned ,you're getting burned anyway ,but at least you have the opportunity to make the quarterback uncomfortable....
This will go down as one of the worst defenses in the history of the NFL, not just the Cowboys, How does our front office allow this to leak into next year?
I just hope it's lip service, They're just saying this out loud, I mean that's why they're not going to throw 59 under the bus, they don't want to really talk about the players, they act like Matt's going to be back next year, but that don't mean he is ,and I just really can't believe that..
I Believe at mid-season they believe that like maybe it was because he didn't have enough players, but he got a lot of help, and for a little short burst it looked like maybe he would be worth keeping ,and not making a big change ,but then in the last game it shows me he's learned nothing, and we don't need a coach they can't do multiples, they can't change on the fly, they can't create different game plans, And then when they go south, to just change at halftime, look that's I don't care about the roster, this is a coaching problem,
It's not even that he can't coach, it's that he's unwilling to change, his ego is a problem, and I don't want a guy with a big ego and nothing he doesn't care about the team he cares about implementing his own scheme, and he's going to stick with it no matter what..
off the soap box...
