Slingin Sammy 33's - Unforgiven

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

And you can't play corner in this league if you don't know the flight of the ball. Some passes he easily could intercept if he knew where the ball was.

In that throw to B. Johnson I was thinking pick...then I realized it was C. Rogers.

[44Deezel]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

In that throw to B. Johnson I was thinking pick...then I realized it was C. Rogers.

I was thinking, "If only our QB could throw that pass and keep the ball in-bounds." Oh schnap!

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by 44Deezel

I was thinking, "If only our QB could throw that pass and keep the ball in-bounds." Oh schnap!

You could've gone with..."if only our coach could call for a pass in the red zone" as well. LOL.

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33

As Paintrain said, "So What Now". Here's what my recommendations are:
1) Fire Blache now. He is a known quantity, he isn't going to change. He was going to retire two years ago. Promote either Olivadotti or Gray whoever is more capable of designing and calling an aggressive, attacking defense that makes the QB question his pre-reads and makes the OL have to question their assignments.
2) Orakpo needs to move to RDE now. Orakpo can be a game changer from that position, not at LB. Move Carter to LB or into the rotation at LDE.
3) Activate Barnes and get him on the field in man coverage situations. Get Tryon on the field more also. The only time Smoot should see the field is playing some sort of short zone.
4) Use more run plays that are primarily straight ahead and make the blocking assignments easier than the stretch. Call straight ahead power runs inside the 5 yd line not the finesse crap. Put in some counters & traps from the Gun
5) On O, Let the young guys play (DT, Kelly, Davis) and don't protect them with play selection. We need to see what we've got going forward, especially with JC. He needs to succeed or fail this season.
6) Long term if we can get Holmgren, make the deal. Give the guy control as GM. If it doesn't work out, start interviewing now (and take plenty of time to find the right guy) so an experienced GM or seasoned coach/GM can step in to the GM role and make all football decisions.

Nailed it here. Especially point one. If we are going to start letting heads roll lets start with Blache and see where that goes. Much easier than trying to start all over from the top, which they still might have to do, but at least not mid-season. Not sure I want a coach/GM, Holmgren was much better when he had good personnel men backing him, but otherwise I would be completely on board with that prescription.

[KI Skins Fan]

You are right on the money. Good work!

[budw38]

Again , great work 33 !

[tdSKINS1]

Awesome job 33 good read

[The Goat]

Can anybody really understand why Blache still has his job? I think w/o question this year's defense is more talented yet the group has regressed markedly...I think we're 15th overall and 22nd against the run. That is an embarrassment especially since our defense is so geared toward stopping the run w/ Daniels at LDE and phat Al in the middle. Bottom line is it falls on Blache to put the pieces together and make the group better than it was the year before. He seems to be failing miserably. Why not let the most talented defensive assistant takeover for the rest of the season? Blache would be gone after this year anyway...

[mooby]

Great post, I agree with it for the most part. The only thing I'm not in agreement with is JC's ball handling skills.

On the first fumble (first play of the game I think), the ball was snapped high and he had to jump to corral it. I don't think that's his fault. On the second fumble (the one where he was trying to pass it and the ball just slipped out of his hands and fell to the turf) well that one can be chalked up to just a slight mistake of not gripping the ball. Maybe it slid out of his hand for all we know. Either way I don't think that's indictive of a huge fumbling problem.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by mooby

Great post, I agree with it for the most part. The only thing I'm not in agreement with is JC's ball handling skills.

On the first fumble (first play of the game I think), the ball was snapped high and he had to jump to corral it. I don't think that's his fault. On the second fumble (the one where he was trying to pass it and the ball just slipped out of his hands and fell to the turf) well that one can be chalked up to just a slight mistake of not gripping the ball. Maybe it slid out of his hand for all we know. Either way I don't think that's indictive of a huge fumbling problem.

Regardless, you can't do the second one.. the first one was indeed a pretty high snap.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mooby

Great post, I agree with it for the most part. The only thing I'm not in agreement with is JC's ball handling skills.

On the first fumble (first play of the game I think), the ball was snapped high and he had to jump to corral it. I don't think that's his fault. On the second fumble (the one where he was trying to pass it and the ball just slipped out of his hands and fell to the turf) well that one can be chalked up to just a slight mistake of not gripping the ball. Maybe it slid out of his hand for all we know. Either way I don't think that's indictive of a huge fumbling problem.

Rabach's shotgun snaps haven't been the best this year. He seems to be all over the place and often puts too much mustard on it.

[tryfuhl]

Lots of good tidbits in here Sammy, thanks for the review. I pretty much wholeheartedly agree. I don't know if Blache is doing this so that the O can't kill us if we get too aggressive, but we definitely need turnovers and defensive scores if we want to win.