How bad is our secondary?

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

You mean the Carlos ROGERS that left for San Francisco for pretty much the same amount of money that we offered him?

Yeah, can we stop bemoaning the loss of poor Carlos Rogers? He was given a few opportunities to stay and let's not forget he was benched for poor play and poor attitude 3 times while he was here. What's next, people saying 'well Champ Bailey is still playing at a high level and we just gave him away!'?

Our secondary is probably below average talent wise but our scheme and playcalling seemingly are built towards highlighting their weaknesses rather than called to their strengths. We don't have strong lock down man corners, so why do we zero blitz so much? We don't have particularly big or athletic safeties so why do we lock them up on slot WR so much?

I'm fine with an aggressive 3-4 but we have to be smart-aggressive. We can send 6 rather than 8. We can play coverage and try to get off the field on 3rd and 7 rather than bring the house, give up a 4 yard dump off, miss a tackle and give up a first down. We can blitz our MLB but drop someone else off the line into coverage to try to cover up a vacant area.

John Keim from the Examiner consistently says two things about our team and coaching staff.. 1) They call plays and run schemes for who they want us to be rather than for who we are. Meaning we don't have the players to be effective with the plays called. 2) Many coaches he has spoken to have indicated that the coverage schemes behind our blitzes are unsound-which leads to plays like what happened vs. Dallas last year, the Wilson play yesterday and the Hawkins long TD. If you are going to send the house you have to either get a jam on the WR or play enough of a shell that whatever happens in front of you can be quickly rallied to.

The other beef I have is specific to Dejon Gomes.. Is he healthy? On the Green TD he seemed to be limping and on every blitz he looked like he was going 3/4 speed rather than all out. I know we are banged up and short at that position but I'd rather see Doughty on that blitz than a jogging Gomes.