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Originally Posted by 12thMan

You know this whole thing about are back-ups being awful and we lack depth and this and that is purely ridiculous.

The reason they're back-ups is for a reason. Sure, some teams have better depth than others, but you can't be deep and stocked at every position. In my opinion, our depth is okay. ONe thing's for sure we had Springs in there, we had Smoot in there, and we had Landry in there. Could our depth be better, sure.

Coach Gregg Williams failed miserably to adjust and completely take TO out of the game. That's really the bottom line here. Clearly Dallas saw something there at the half and made a proper adjustment, we failed to counter adjust. Also, on Doc Walkers pregame show (local program), he talked about how Williams has the safeties playing over in Anacostia (other side of town) and how the Cowboys would kill us if he had that type of game plan. Well they did just that. At some point you have to let either Witten or Crayton beat you, not TO, and not four times.

And isn't this a reoccuring theme with this defense for the past four years. We can easily go back the last four seasons, and see the same "big play" killing us in the end of the game. Truthfully, in the past, whether Sean Taylor has been back there or not, we have struggled with the long ball. It's just magnified when he's not in there. It's only been this season where they've figured out to effectively use him. So, I think this is a game where the staff need to look long and hard at what they're doing, and allow the personnel to work within that framework.

What I don't get is, if the safeties are playing in "anacostia" why are they getting beat deep. That seems counter intuitive to me.