The Official Defense Has Major Issues/Fire Jim Haslett Thread

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

The one thing I'll say about Carter is that we shouldn't ignore the good plays he's making in the pass rush and at the line of scrimmage simply because he makes a lot of read-related mistakes regarding cutback/reverse and because he sucks in space. Carter pretty much had the same weaknesses last year when he had 11 sacks and a career year, and teams (Eagles, specifically) schemed against those weaknesses then. He's still a valuable part of our pressure schemes this year.

Coverage isn't so much Carter's issue as much as when you really stretch the offensive edge to his side (via stretch run or bootleg) and he gets strung out to the sideline, he's really, really a useless player in space. On the contrary, you put Lorenzo Alexander in space and he lights people up.

I think Carter of the weakness of the linebacking corps, if only because McIntosh has really taken to the system. But I don't think Carter is an overall liability, I think he's just an easy target for offenses to scheme against if we play passive read-and-react style. When we go on the attack, he's an asset.

Agree. Keep him in the 2-4-5 and 1-5-5, but he shouldn't be in on the 3-4 base.