Problems with the Defense, IMHO

[djnemo65]

Originally Posted by SUNRA

While I agree with most of your thread, I have to disagree about with your assessment of the mediocrity of the defense. Walt Harris has been the target of myself and several others who have watched him miss tackles, play the receiver while never looking over his shoulder to play the ball. If you take away the plays he alone has given up you have a win against the Bucs last week. Agree? Just look at how he has fallen to all time low in covering the 2# wideouts. Not the 1#. The people that are scoring on him are no-names. The loss of Smoot is definitely felt at this juncture. But no reason crying over spilled milk. This team needs a face lift. Starting with the secondary and working its way to the WRs.

The stats don't lie. The Redskins have been the most balanced team on offense and defense most of the season. What has happened is, everyone anticipates the blitz and Williams is not changing his approach.

I don't have the stats to back it up but based on my observations it seems that Williams certainly has changed his approach, that he blitzes significantly less this year. That's been part of the problem. We don't have the pass rush or coverage skills to play a standard cover-2 without exotic blitzing, even though we've had to. Take away our blitzing and it seems to me we are indeed pretty mediocre.