Our defense is like playing doubles tennis with a weak partner. The other team keeps hitting it at him so you decide to cheat and help him out.
The result is you are out of position and give up easy points time after time. There is no solution if your teammate can’t play them straight up the majority of the time.
This is exactly what is happening on third down. We are unbelievably out of position. And the problem isn’t going away until the front seven can do their part. It wouldn’t matter if Dion Sanders was covering. We are out of position almost every third down. Our front seven is too slow to get to QB or can’t get off blocks. There is always going to be some receiver running wide open near the first down marker until we get more speed in the front seven. I’m think Farley, David, Eric Johnson, Jamal Williams LB speed to QB. Or Tomich, Wistrom, Suh on line. Starters are just incredibly slow.
I’m not sure offense is our problem. Not getting off the field on third down is killing any rhythm this team starts to generate. It is the reason we play scared on offense.
The result is you are out of position and give up easy points time after time. There is no solution if your teammate can’t play them straight up the majority of the time.
This is exactly what is happening on third down. We are unbelievably out of position. And the problem isn’t going away until the front seven can do their part. It wouldn’t matter if Dion Sanders was covering. We are out of position almost every third down. Our front seven is too slow to get to QB or can’t get off blocks. There is always going to be some receiver running wide open near the first down marker until we get more speed in the front seven. I’m think Farley, David, Eric Johnson, Jamal Williams LB speed to QB. Or Tomich, Wistrom, Suh on line. Starters are just incredibly slow.
I’m not sure offense is our problem. Not getting off the field on third down is killing any rhythm this team starts to generate. It is the reason we play scared on offense.