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Originally Posted by joejccva71 |
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I'm curious about something my friends.
I'm on my 3rd season as the Redskins, and over the past few seasons I drafted a few sleeper DB's. One is a CB and the other a SS, both in the mid 90 potential.
Now my DC has a 74 rating, and my DB coach is 99(Jerry Gray I think his name is). Now against the run my defense is awesome, but the pass defense is LUDICROUS. I have a pretty decent defensive line (i got rid of jason taylor..he was always getting hurt), and I got rid of carlos rodgers at CB.
So my CB's are Springs (84 OVR 87 POT) and Cris Carter (90 OVR, 95 POT), and my safties are Laron Landry and Will Barkley, and they just can't play man coverage NOR zone coverage and stop passes. I think Springs has 1 pick all year. It gets me so frustrated. Hell, Matt Schaub of the Texans threw over 400 yards on me and 4 TD's. Blew me away.
The question I have for you fine people is:
Even though my DB coach is 99 rated, think I should fire him or keep him? My DB's are rated well and have good intangible ratings, learning, awareness etc, but they ARENT playing well.
Is it possible to have an above 90 OVR rated positional coach or coordinator and those players still play BAD defensively throughout an entire season? I can understand a bad game or two, but EVERY game I was toasted badly against the pass.
Your thoughts and advice are much appreciated here.
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A few thoughts on this topic:
Offensive line pass blocking is insane! I have an incredible DL on my Dolphins team (Poter, Campbell, Davage and Boone) and I still hardly get any preasure on the QB in passing, especially Shotgum formations. So, If the OL blocks that well, I thought I would come at it with a different angle.... I use my DB's on the outside to Blitz and u would not belive how well it works. In my third season with the Fins, I only had 3 teams (out of 16) get more than 300 Total yrds of offense against me using a misture of DB Blitzing and Overloads on one side of the offensive line.
Another thought on this is IF u haven't purchased the Speed Special Skill for both the DC and DB coach then what is happening is your guys are just getting burned on the play. I upgraded these two portions of my coaches and it made a huge difference. Not many more INT's but I did see more deflections.
I hope this helps you out.