WillSaints81

Would those lining up plays be a problem if the players were doing what Rob liked to do? SP should not have been trying to stick his hand in.

spkb25

Well here is the question I can't shake from everyone claiming a "new scheme" was implemented and that was what doomed RR.

If that is true then what happened year 2?

It would make sense for the Saints to talk to RR about altering the scheme if they felt that year two of his defense was a disaster. The thing I do not get is that everyone is pretending there were not three years with Rob here. Yes, year one we were 4rth in pts and yards, and the d looked great. Next season we were terrible. No one is claiming that year 2 is when the supposed changes were made. It is all about last year, his third season. It makes sense for that to happen because a good many of us wanted him fired. DA was brought in after his second season, when we were terrible. At the end of the day Rob must have been forced to run other people's defenses a lot in his career. In 12 years he has 2 top 10 defenses and (including the 2 top 10 d's) he has 4 top 20 d's. SP didn't coach all of those places.

Lining up was an issue in his first season, if I am to remember back correctly.

Your team stinks

spkb25

From my memory, yes

NonieT

Do you really believe after finishing 4th in defense the previous season Payton had anything to do with the scheme change? Because if you do I have some bridges I'd like to sell you, real cheap. Ryan tried to do the same thing in Dallas. It didn't work and he can't blame that on Payton.