O line

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Originally Posted by FRPLG

Oh my gosh this is what I have been saying since the middle of the first quarter against the Bears. NO SECONDARY in the has the speed to cover both Patten and Moss on flys and posts without two Safeties in ladder coverage. Hell Moss gets 5 or 6 yards of sepeartion just about any time he runs a fly one on one. Line those two midgets up on opposite sides of the field and have them run like forrest gump. The safety then has to decide which to provide ladder coverage on and the other should have one on one. THROW IT 30 yards past him and let him run under it. At least if it is too long it doesn't get picked. If they bring two safeties back to cover the flys then start dumping off to Cooley, Portis and Royal and let them get 9 or 10 YAC. I sat in the high ups at the Bears game and had a good view of the whole field. I am tellings you this would have worked. I watched Moss just run by guys every time he was running a lateral route. It was ridiculous.

Absolutly! I would come out against Seatle and start firing downfield immediatly, 3 long passes to either sideline, but I would couple that with Cooley down the center of the field, he will beat the LB's which will leave 1 on 1 coverage for someone all of the time, and only leave 7 men in the box on the defensive side, but these things are not a QB problem or a player problem they are a scheme problem which is a Gibbs problem.

Once a team figures out they will have man to man coverage everyplay against WR's with the kind of speed we have they will have to pull back and play a more conservative pass coverage, which will open things up for Portis.

The concern I do have is this, everytime we think Gibbs is going to open things up and turn the corner with a game plan that seems pretty obvious to most of us, he goes right back into his shell and stagnates the offense, almost as if he can't wait to just play conservative.