All I said is we played 3 shit offenses in 4 games
Which is true.
We got Branch back, which is a big deal, because despite his pick today, Chuck Clark is the Miles Frazier of our D. Massive upgrade.
Rodrigo played pretty well and so did Barnes. We didn’t have Reed or Wonnum and it all looked pretty good.
But Miami ‘s offense is a 3 legged plow horse on the Autobahn. It was sooooper stinky dogshyte all day. Their only strength, blasting Ollie Gordon 25 times between the tackles was running into our best ability on D. Neutralized.
I am a bit worried about Barnes and Rodrigo holding up against a good mid range passing attack. More than a bit.
FORTUNATELY, we don’t really face an elite QB all year now, except probably Love in week 18. That guy has blazing hot streaks, but he does cool off and hopefully he does in that span of time or they are out of it and their hearts really aren’t in it.
I am bought in on our guys ( with Reed and Wonnum and Branch healthy, let alone an actual Kerby savior narrative coming true) but we need to add a LB and a CB to be bought in on the idea that we can play enough D in the playoffs to win multiple games.
TL;DR- If that was Burrow and Co, we woulda got boatraced.
Love is on a little bit of a heater right now but imo he’s not consistent enough currently to win a SB. Now if they get Jonathon Taylor it might be a different story. Hopefully neither Minnesota nor Green Bay get Taylor. Our division is already tough enough.
Agree, too early to make this a definitive statement. Especially with Branch back on defense again, who will be critical vs Williams and running/mobile qbs overall.
Does anyone have a defense that can stop the MVP and most likely best qb in the league? No.
Caleb williams is 0-4 against the Detroit Lions.
The smarter guys here have already said it: It’s way to earlier to be this certain. My two cents. The beating Brad over the head bc he didn’t do a move anyone one of us thinks would be best is obnoxious. This current draft class is excelling. Lions are getting praise all around the NFL of being a model franchise building and sustaining success. The FA’s we got this offseason, though some thought marginal, have been stepping up.
I hear you both. Think we do need to bring in more defensive help to tighten up. If it was Burrow’s and company……maybe we boatrace them bc their defense isn’t being run by two defensive minded coaches in Jeff Hafley (PACKERS) and the Dolphins DC who was in Houston two years ago and forced 5 ints on Goff. I think yesterday was a mix Jack/trap game/two defensive coaches who know the lions offense really well.
Again, I don’t feel we have the horses to get too far in the playoffs with this defense. And we won’t because our pass rush scheme is still just o.k. and needs one more big piece ( bigger than Hutch) to make this scheme work. And now at LB, we were slow before ( God bless him) JC went down and now it’s critical. C/B is still weak. Baring injury, we won’t get past the Bears or SF. They are too fast off the line, hard hitting and talented. If Vaki could play well more consistently as the bruiser back like he did against the Vikings, we would have something magical again on offense, but our D is going to be our achilles aaagain this year. Too many glaring holes and at best an average DC. Hope I’m wrong. Bears and SF in the NFC final.
You are far more down on our talent on defense than I am. Barnes, Nowaske and Rodrigo may not be a talented LBer trio compared to a lot of defenses but they definitely aren’t a slow trio. At least not in a testing sense. Perhaps you meant slow to diagnose and trigger. That could be.
I think we have plenty in the pass rush department. Alim is a top 5 or so pass rushing DT, SGH has been a revelation, Moore looked great on Sunday and Wonnum has been solid. It’s a really good front IMO. I am not a coach and you are so I will defer to you on the lack of creativity with the pass rush scheme.
The back end on coverage remains a concern. We need Reed to play like he had for the prior three games. Kerby getting back would help.
The defense has some blemishes for sure but a lot of good defenses do. And statistically we’ve been terrific by every measure on defense for the second quarter of the season.
