I am going to agree with this. IMO that was probably the best run defense they have played all year. That was by far the best outing by the linebackers this year. That was the best game that Banderas as ever played. The days of completely shutting down a team a team and allowing absolutly nothing on defense are going to be few and far between. I am really pretty happy with the way the defense is making steady improvement this year.
There's a wide difference between nit-picky complaints in general and posts containing images with the specific complaints displayed. Anybody who wants to take the time to collect the images/video and make their case is okay with me.
My only argument to this is that based on how many times it happens, and the fact that at the end of the day, the defense played a very good whole game, we're obviously generating some sort of tendancy and leverage in whatever matchup situations. Like i said in another post, i dont think there's any sort of defense that is capable of taking away all possibiilties on any particular play.Here's an example of what I was talking about earlier. First of all, I have no idea why we insist on shorting ourselves in coverage like this. We rarely get anyone out on the slot receiver. The "plan" is for Young to cover the flat from his LB spot. But he's also taught to key the RB so all Indiana has to do is a quick run fake which sucks Young in and leaves no one anywhere near the slot on an easy pass and catch that gains 22 yards.
I get that, but after all the stuff that has happened this year.....foltz and the anthem protests backlash, cant we for once just be happy we are 6-0? That we look better? At the end of the day, these guys are still kids. But we want to have film study and second guess technique. Oh...ok.
Can we do both? I'm super happy we're 6-0. And I like taking a critical look at what we're doing.
that's where I'm at. We can overanalyze. But until we're gettin 408'ed, i'm not gonna question much right now. The trend is in the right direction for sure.
If you go back to the OP, I'm not arguing that this is necessarily a bad scheme, I was pointing out there was a lot of grumbling - both here and from media guys - that our linebackers weren't playing well. I don't think it's necessarily a case for them not playing well, I think the scheme we're running doesn't lend itself to LBs making a lot of plays. They have to make the play when it comes into their gap but they're not expected to run all over the field making plays. I think I've documented that to be the case.