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Well, I got rocked pretty good in the game thread yesterday for a contarian stance. In the middle of our loss when Kurt Warner was tearing us apart, many posters were screaming for the blitz. We must pressure Kurt Warner, so let's blitz him, right? I would pretty consistently say.. no. Why, doesn't KY want us to win?
Yeah, I want to win. But you must do things in the game which allow you to win. Capers was pretty well handcuffed by his personnel groupings. And I will readily admit that at certain instances, a well placed storm might have helped our cause.
First of all, Warner has reached elite status. He is a HOF QB. He is a guy you can't blitz. You didn't blitz Joe Montana. You didn't blitz Marino and you don't blitz Kurt Warner.
Kurt was sacked just 24 times this past season. He is one of the best in the business at beating the blitz. In fact, Warner's passer rating against the blitz (100.4) is even better than his overall rating of 93.2. He makes a living whipping teams that do blitz him. He was the best QB in the league against blitzes in 2009. I maintain that Capers had a shitty hand to play, but played his cards as best he could.
If Dom were to send five on a consistent basis, who would be our fifth rusher and who would cover the blitz? Collins leaps to mind. I don't recall any safety blitzes. So Bush and or Giordano are going to protect us deep?
Hawk is no blitzing LB. So you send Chillar or Barnett, right? You start blitzing one of those two and Warner would eat that shit up. Woodson also comes to mind, but with the young corners struggling, it wouldn't have helped to send CW on corner blitzes.
It also would have been nice to get pressure from Brad Jones, but after some nice work in the second half of the season, he disappeared in the play-off game. He's a good kid, but he was revealed to outmanned at his job in the play-offs.
Bigby? Well he was hurt later, but maybe a SS blitz might have helped us some early. I know Dom was trying to get his coverages ironed out before he went to sending safeties. And there was trouble back there early also.
Like GB, AZ's Head Coach is it's defacto OC. Whisenhunt was an offensive assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers for five seasons, working regularly against the 3-4 zone-blitz defense that Capers and Dick LeBeau created in the early 1990s. Once Whiz saw the Packers trying to get 5 man pressure, we would have been gouged worse (if possible) than we already were.
We got beat by a guy with a playoff record of 8-3, a passer rating of 98.8 and three Super Bowl appearances, including a world title in 1999.
We are about at the same point we were when Dallas blew us up in 1995. We are a young team that doesn't have the horses, yet.
We will get better. Capers helped keep MM's job for him this year. Dom isn't going anywhere soon, nor should he worry about his job. if you fire coordinator after one weak performance in the play-offs, it doesn't bode well for the organization. Dom's approach is sound, we just need experience and to play better.
Yeah, I want to win. But you must do things in the game which allow you to win. Capers was pretty well handcuffed by his personnel groupings. And I will readily admit that at certain instances, a well placed storm might have helped our cause.
First of all, Warner has reached elite status. He is a HOF QB. He is a guy you can't blitz. You didn't blitz Joe Montana. You didn't blitz Marino and you don't blitz Kurt Warner.
Kurt was sacked just 24 times this past season. He is one of the best in the business at beating the blitz. In fact, Warner's passer rating against the blitz (100.4) is even better than his overall rating of 93.2. He makes a living whipping teams that do blitz him. He was the best QB in the league against blitzes in 2009. I maintain that Capers had a shitty hand to play, but played his cards as best he could.
If Dom were to send five on a consistent basis, who would be our fifth rusher and who would cover the blitz? Collins leaps to mind. I don't recall any safety blitzes. So Bush and or Giordano are going to protect us deep?
Hawk is no blitzing LB. So you send Chillar or Barnett, right? You start blitzing one of those two and Warner would eat that shit up. Woodson also comes to mind, but with the young corners struggling, it wouldn't have helped to send CW on corner blitzes.
It also would have been nice to get pressure from Brad Jones, but after some nice work in the second half of the season, he disappeared in the play-off game. He's a good kid, but he was revealed to outmanned at his job in the play-offs.
Bigby? Well he was hurt later, but maybe a SS blitz might have helped us some early. I know Dom was trying to get his coverages ironed out before he went to sending safeties. And there was trouble back there early also.
Like GB, AZ's Head Coach is it's defacto OC. Whisenhunt was an offensive assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers for five seasons, working regularly against the 3-4 zone-blitz defense that Capers and Dick LeBeau created in the early 1990s. Once Whiz saw the Packers trying to get 5 man pressure, we would have been gouged worse (if possible) than we already were.
We got beat by a guy with a playoff record of 8-3, a passer rating of 98.8 and three Super Bowl appearances, including a world title in 1999.
We are about at the same point we were when Dallas blew us up in 1995. We are a young team that doesn't have the horses, yet.
We will get better. Capers helped keep MM's job for him this year. Dom isn't going anywhere soon, nor should he worry about his job. if you fire coordinator after one weak performance in the play-offs, it doesn't bode well for the organization. Dom's approach is sound, we just need experience and to play better.
No way man. It was 50 degrees here yesterday, about twice what it was back in da yoop.
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