wade phillips wow

[CrustyRedskin]

Id rather have anyone but a cowboy.

[hooskins]

dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!

[KLHJ2]

I wasn't exactly pleased when the Skins hired Hasslet but he has just implemented the 3-4 and he doesn't quite have all of the pieces that he needs for it yet.

I just think that it would be a typical "Redskins-type" knee jerk reaction to let him go after one season. The entire league expects us to pull crap like this and frankly it's beyond embarrassing at this point. Can't we just give it time and be sure that it was a mistake before we assume that it was one too quickly?

Even Gregg Williams and Gragg Blache's Defenses got their asses lit up at one time or another. Whether you are a top 10 defense or not, it happens.

[skinsfan69]

I don't care who comes here. We need a whole new front 7, end of discussion.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

I don't care who comes here. We need a whole new front 7, end of discussion.

You're done with Rak?

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

You're done with Rak?

Out side of Rak and 2-3 others I don't want anyone back.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Out side of Rak and 2-3 others I don't want anyone back.

Sorry but it doesn't work that way.

[NYCskinfan82]

Haslett just dosen't have all the pieces yet remember Rome wasn't built in a day.

[Dread-Skin]

Originally Posted by NYCskinfan82

Haslett just dosen't have all the pieces yet remember Rome wasn't built in a day.

Oh good, a pointless remedy to our situation. Its already been 500 years in NFL years, dating back to '91 from the last time our Skins were praised and from '99 when Snyder took over. Rome could have been built/destroyed, found a new architect/caesar and built/destroyed that too but beer would still be $8.


Its going to take years as many are aware enough to point out we cant undo Snyder-RATo in one season. This team is an eyesore at times and I get caught rubber-necking this wreck of a team but I wish so bad we could stop being the laughing stock of the league. The division is up for grabs every year if we could find/fix what ails us. What I tell myself every year is I wont buy into the hype/hope but football is in my bloodstream. I'll always be a skins fan but maybe next year I wont spend so much money until they really start giving back.

[CrustyRedskin]

Originally Posted by NYCskinfan82

Haslett just dosen't have all the pieces yet remember Rome wasn't built in a day.

No, but it got sacked in one. And over and over and over and over again kinda like the skins.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by NYCskinfan82

Haslett just dosen't have all the pieces yet remember Rome wasn't built in a day.

Will he last until he get's them? That is the question.

[SBXVII]

The players are advocating patience....

Defense Is Experiencing 'Growing Pains,' Players Say

[SirClintonPortis]

The "Phillips"

This system is not what people think of when they think of the 3-4, because the original 3-4 was/is strictly a 2-gap system.

In fact, look at the Denver "Orange Crush Defense" of the late 70's. It was run by Red Miller, and one of his assistants at the time was Coach Belichick. Belichick ended up in NE as we all know, while Fairbanks returned to college coaching in Colorado. Denver fans would thus be more likely than many fans to think of the 3-4 in terms of 2 gap, but you can still read the mistaken notion in many sports sites and publications.

The Phillips is named after "Bum Phillips", father of DAL head coach Wade Phillips, who formerly coached the Broncos as both a head coach and defensive coordinator. Bum learned under Paul "Bear" Bryant at A&M and had coached high school football well enough to break into the college ranks (not a common route). He was a defensive coordinator in SD, then in HOU (that's the Oilers for you young folks). He later was a head coach in HOU and later for NO.

Phillips was an innovator who turned the 3-4 upside down. His system is one-gap. The DL penetrates, and is charged with constant harrasment of the QB. The LBs are typically fast, and at least one of them will blitz on any given play.

The reason for the near constant 1-LB blitz is to account for the fact that the outnumbered DL is also relatively undersized and only one-gapping. However, the adjustments work out well. The OL never knows who the blitzer will be, or where he will come from. The Phillips is more aggressive that the Bullough. The school of thought for the Phillips 3-4 is the need to pressure against the QB to stop the pass threat, and this is done by varying who the "fourth rusher" (who is really a blitzer) is.

Add another blitzer in here and there, and the speedy/aggressive Phillips system is a threat to QBs, and attempts to get turnovers by slashing the time that a QB has to make decisions.

This is the system of choice for DAL, but also SD.

It is not the ideal system for SD in one sense. Denver (king of the offensive "zone block " system for runs) and oakland (newly switched to the zone block) are built to run over the 1 gap defenses, and they share the division with SD. SD adjusts for this by:

MHR University - Modern 3-4 Defense Systems - Mile High Report
I've posted this before, so this should look familiar.

[Dread-Skin]

Any chance we can send a sorry letter along with a fruit basket to GWilliams to get him back?

[Jontrem]

Originally Posted by Dread-Skin

Any chance we can send a sorry letter along with a fruit basket to GWilliams to get him back?

Crap that made me laugh so loud people in the office are looking at me!