Re: Resign please spags
 

There is no way to blame just spags. But he is without question a big part of the blame. We clearly have no personnel to match his system, but he needs to be flexible enough to see that fact and adjust. There's no way to make this unit good, with the players we have, but it could be at least a little better. I hated GW's scheme, it was too risky and more often than not didn't pay off. But at this point, I'll take getting burned often over getting burned on almost every single play. In other words... BLITZ!! And keep blitzing, no matter what, because eventually you're bound to get there, and it may just cause a turnover. This four man rush is useless.

Re: Resign please spags
 

I dont blame Spags for the Defense.

I blame the guys we got on Defense because only about 2 or 3 of them truly can understand a scheme.

You wonder why Gregg Williams blitzed so much and kept things simple?

You seeing it, most of the defense needs Gutted.

Re: Resign please spags
 

I've been preaching this all year, Manning didn't even have to get fancy with his audibles tonight. They just ran the damn ball down our throats. If a freakin NFL defensive coordinator cannot even adjust to the run game and figure out a way to stop a simple draw, then he needs to coach pop warner. I'll never give up on this team, I've been there with the good and the bad but this is very bad.

What really upsets me is in the past when we had bad seasons, we usually had no talent. That's not the case with this team, we have all the talent in the world with no
one to coach them properly.

Re: Resign please spags
 

I'm sorry but I have to disagree. Greg Williams defense was way more complex than what we are running now. GW had about 20 different looks a game, all Spags does is run 2 deep zone and every QB in the league slices us up and every RB gashes us. A zone defense is a very simple defense that you learn in middle school. JMO

Re: Resign please spags
 

Even if the defense held one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game it wouldn't of mattered. They had stopped our offense anyway. Total team effort by Denver and not us. At this point yeah I don't think a wildcard place is going to happen. Just as well let Sprags have the rest of the season to get the defense going.!

Re: Resign please spags
 

I know. With Gregg Williams you would have guys moving around, changing position, feigning the blitz, lining up in different positions on different plays, moving around, jumping in and out -- a ton of different looks. Sharper would crouch down like a bird and just tiptoe, walk around back there, creeping, so the QB sees that and goes uh-oh, WTF is he gonna do....This defense all just seems very vanilla, even to somebody with a less than trained eye for defense, it's like they just line up and that's it -- nothing to disguise or confuse or make the other team guess or worry. There's nothing threatening about it at all. Which is why teams march down the field so effortlessly against it.

Re: Resign please spags
 

Obviously I'm going to be in minority here, but I still believe that Spags will be a very good hire. I'm giving him until at least the end of year 2. I'm not where close to jumping the gun after half a season.

Re: Resign please spags
 

And those bits i highlighted in bold, were the key to our superbowl win vs manning

Peyton got comfortable and all of a sudden, we gave him one look so had a play designed for it, and then we'd completely change it before the ball was snapped

Go watch the superbowl highlights, our defense confused the hell out of manning with multiple audibles

spags just let them line up and manning just thought "well pat robinson is there weak link, i'm going to abuse him all day" and he did just that

would we even get anything in a trade for robinson now everyone has seen he's just jason david in disguise?

Re: Resign please spags
 

I didn't watch the game as I was at Game 4 of the World Series watching the SF Giants give my Tigers the broom in our own backyard, thank-you very much, :disgust:, but I saw some of the lowlites of the Saints/Broncos game later on.

I agree, in a situation like this you have to withhold judgement on Spags at least until he's had some time with the Saints coaching staff fully intact. It sucks, and it's supposed to suck, and it makes me hate Goodell and the NFL just that much more ... you circle the wagons, you take the pain, you live to fight another day.

Resiliency.

Re: Resign please spags
 

I agree. This defense was bad before Spags got here.

I'm not going to blame this entirely on him because he isn't blowing coverages, missing tackles and getting pushed around every week.