Quote Originally Posted by wist43 View Post
You can't compare what Pickett or anyone else is doing with another team b/c of how dunderdummy misused them while they were here.

We had the right players in place last year for the most part - our ILB's being the lone, very dismal exception; but of course dunderdummy conceived alignments which ensured that those substandard players were on the field 24/7, while more competent DL were standing on the sideline.

Now this year, TT and dunderdummy dump the 3-4 guys, and what do they do?? Of course they start to run a more traditional 3-4/Elephant - which of course is just another misuse of the players they have on the roster now!!!

The common denominators in our mess of a defense are TT and dunderdummy. Whatever it is about those 2 guys putting their heads together, it has been producing some abysmal results.

We had a much better collection of front seven players last year, and dunderdummy fucked it up. The fix would have been to go to a more traditional 3-4 look in either/or down/distance situations, and look to shore up the mess at ILB. TT did nothing to shore up ILB, booted the 3-4 defensive linemen, and dunderdummy augmented those mistakes by miscasting the players he had left - seems par for the course for those guys.
I didn't think our guys were worse this year, just different. The guys we have now ought to be able to defend the run on the way to the passer in 1-gap fashion. IMO if you have players that are good at anything, even if they are nearly specialists, a good game plan ought to be able to leverage those strengths and achieve acceptable results against both the run and pass. But when we're equally ineffective at everything like we were against NO, it definitely supports your argument that we have a less talented front 7 this season.