I was honestly hoping Glen would make it as DC and improve as a DC but this right here has me really worried if that will ever happen
“I think that’s really funny that that’s always the buzz word of adjustments,” Glenn said on Thursday morning. “And I kind of laugh at it because it just shows that how people just don’t have a clue. I mean we’re winning.
“We’re doing a really good job and what are you changing.”
So because they have a 9-3 record there is no reason to change anything on the defensive side…SMH
The Lions defense lacked depth going into this season.
Had they had better injury luck, this could be a much better unit. CJGJ, Moseley and Houston going down really hurt. No excuses, every team has injuries. On paper going into the season they were solid everywhere, but not deep enough, particularly at CB. Edge looked crowded at one point but Okwara and Harris have been awful. Holmes has his work cut out for him. He’s done an excellent job in building his roster and I’m confident he can bring his defense forward next year. We’ll see how far they can go with what they have now.
And so I think many would agree that this team will go as far as the offense will take them. They have some good players on defense. Maybe they can enough bounces to keep them rolling come January. We’ll see.
Nor do I. At least not now. Through the first six weeks I thought we were. And weighted DVOA which prioritizes recent results so it undoubtedly has us much lower (though I don’t have that number)
DVOA attempts to adjust for strength of schedule so that shouldn’t matter.
I think most throughout the league would hold Dan in higher esteem than you do but would otherwise for the most part agree.
I find this comment interesting. Whenever I would reference AGs bad defense during his tenure the response would be “stop looking at the full body of work and focus on the last 8 (or so) games and you can see that he’s improving.” But now when we reference recent games it’s that we’re over-reacting to recent trends. I think for me there’s always an excuse if you look hard enough…. But I’ve still never seen anything from AG that has given me faith. I mean I can go with all the excuses in the world if I squint hard enough - but 3 years as a DC and at no point has there really been anything impressive for me to believe.
Overall it feels like the hope is “let’s stack this defense full of Uber talented players, then we can judge AG.” But if that’s the case, then wouldn’t any DC work? Any DC that needs a roster full of elite players to succeed doesn’t impress me.
Imho, which means nothing as I’m not a coordinator is this
AG is referring the idea of major changes; changing foundational concerts that are used in all the games played. Not smaller changes for individual game schemes. And in the unknown of injuries and the next man up actually performing as you hope they will….
Is this a rough patch right now duh yes!
But the overall picture is getting to back to back winning seasons in only 29 games!!
I am gtg my friend with it all; even if we lose to the bears which I don’t think we will
Why do we have a high pressure rate and a terrible low sack total? Is this a consequence of the better run D, that they aren’t running games as much and leaving holes/contain?
What happened with our preparation and defensive set that allowed GB to complete a tone setting bomb PLAY 1???
Why is Kerby blitzing, why was Houston rerouted to pass coverage in preseason…other round peg/square hole questions that are solely due to coaching/scheme?
What has happened to the Cam Sutton we saw that looked tight in coverage through about week 7, as he is getting separated from seemingly at will right now?
Cap’s question about LB assignment/position.
Y’know, Stuff The Beat Guys Should Be Asking if they had Testicles.
The talent is such that the sum of the parts is less than the individual pieces. Part of that is youth, part of that is coaching.
If you look at the whole year there is somewhere between modest improvement (points per game) and significant improvement (yards per game, defensive DVOA) year over year.
But when you isolate week 7 on, all of the numbers are bad.
That’s all I was trying to say. I can assure you that I wasn’t attempting to excuse Glenn’s coaching.
Really? At no point this year have I thought that Cam Sutton is locking people down. It’s gotten worse but Sutton, who has been fine IMO, has never looked like he’s dominating a matchup.
