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Originally Posted by New World Order
I thought Spags scheme was supposed to be simple.
LBs look like they have no ****ing clue what gap to fill.
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It. Was. Never. Scheme.
All you had to do was stop listening to the players make excuses about how bad a job they were doing and actually watch what was happening.
Sutton's stuff was simple flow/fill concepts that you learned in high school. People kept wanting to pretend that was rocket science because they didn't want to blame the players and Sutton was an easy mark, but it isn't. That's basic basic stuff that every team does.
There isn't a team in football that just tells its linebackers to see ball, hit ball. Or line up in a spot and determine before the snap where you're going to run. You do that and these OCs will absolutely eat you alive. It's their damn job.
Defense is by its very nature reactive; it has to be - the offense knows where the ball is going and what's happening next, the defense doesn't. So to act like you can just take all nuance and all requirement to analyze out of a defense is just ridiculous.
But "Sutton's complicated scheme!!" became the buzzwords and now people are wondering why Spags scheme is just so damn complicated. IT ISN'T! Nor was Sutton's. This is basic stuff that you could see these guys failing to execute last season.
Spags, like so damn many DCs before him, is more bark than bite. Guys like him and Gunther and Rob Ryan and a slew of others all talk big and say the right things that make them sound awesome. But most of the time they're just full of shit. Spags is Gunther 2.0. He was when he was hired. Gunter was "anyone but Greg Robinson" and as it turns out he was just another tired retread who'd had brief moments of faint success due to superior talent. And he parlayed an attitude into coaching jobs and promotions he never showed the aptitude for.
Spags is the same guy. He has a reputation because he talks a big game and once had a good defense with good players, but ultimately he's just as JAG as JAG gets and frankly his resume suggested he was worse than that.
But in the end, the players just need to execute ANYTHING. Because for all the talk of how the Lions and Colts 'found the blueprint' (before the Texans actually vivisected us), the only thing those 2 teams did that was all that impressive was they simply went where they were supposed to go and made the damn tackle. Our guys guess (poorly) and don't finish plays. There's no scheme in the world that can address that (or frankly, cause it).