The Cards were dealt

[panther4life]

1 thing on this board that seems to be a consenus is the playcalling needs to be adjusted to our roster's strengths and cover up the weaknesses. With our current roster please submit changes you would make to accomdate our strengths and cover up our weaknesses without being so complicated that we'd have to learn a new playbook. I'll come back and post my ideas shortly but would love to hear everyone elses in the meantime

[Dpantherman]

creative play-calling. we are WAY too predictable. how about 4 reciever sets. Cut the Zone defense crap, its not working. no pass rush, so all we are doing is giving the QB all day to through while in soft WR coverage. And for the love of all things good COVER THE FREAKING TIGHT ENDS!!!!!!

[Guild]

Who were the cards dealt to?

We're not getting any of these cards.

To answer your question:

In my perspective it seems like our players are having trouble reading the play and reacting accordingly now that their zones are meant to only serve as a starting point before they react to the play happening. I suggest we run more man coverage schemes to allow our physical defensive backs an opportunity to use athleticism to make big plays.

[panther4life]

Who were the cards dealt to?

We're not getting any of these cards.

the cards are dealt to fox and crew.just pretend he was asking for the consultation of the huddle to increase his job secuirty and teams winning percentage

[Peppers90 NC]

It's been said millions of times that press coverage would help on defense. It would disrupt the offenses timing and maybe cause some coverage sacks. Disguise blitzes better, but most importantly, a fire needs to be lit and the players need to play with more emotion.

Offense, you don't want as much emotion, there you stay even keel. I like what we did last year, we just need to get the chemistry back and work off of playaction. Our O needs to be our D by hogging the ball. Make sure Smith gets his touches again like last week, alter the snap count, I cant remember an offsides by a defensive player on the other team yet. I like the full house backfield when running and this game, vs the 3-4, Jake will have to resort RB's in the flats to counter blitzes when screens arent called.

[frash.exe]

Zone blitzing, mixing up the blitzes, blitzes up the middle to help fill the gaps.

we're simply going to need more than a 4 man rush to pressure the quarterback because our 4 man rush is not going to be very good from now on, and to be honest it wasn't very good to begin with this year.

[Guild]

Not that I disagree with your second paragraph Peppers90 NC, but I really really agree with the first.

[rayzor]

on offense: get rid of the ball quickly. spread the ball around and make them pay for doubling up smith or stacking the box. use the TEs and RBs as targets as much as smith and moose and don't wait until the 3rd quarter to get them involved. also, go no huddle or hurry up for most of the game. take the thinking out of it and just pound away with the run and short passes.

on defense.

take godfrey out once harris is back. and go with a 4-4 or a 5-3 and let davis and peppers float around when they are on the field. CBs don't give the WRs any breathing room. jam them on the line and stick to them like glue. beason and diggs/connor/anderson cover that middle of the field looking for anything that comes in there and hitting it. the edges will be vulnerable but that is when the big pass rush comes in. it has to be constantly coming from peppers and davis. lewis/brayton/charles johnson would stay on that line. brown would be on the field on passing downs. in 4-4s he might line up at linebacker some. see what he can do standing up. see what he can exploit.

probably not great ideas at all but then this isn't what i get paid to do.

[Peppers90 NC]

I think that defense could be a look Razor, but I'm not comfortable have Harris play center field all game. I do want to see Davis blitz some and know Romo onhisfugingass.

[panther4life]

i think the cover 2 should only be employed against the west coast offense (philly is a prime example).. A power running game and a tight end who can make plays across the middle of the field will punish the cover 2.(Minnesota is a prime example here). My biggest Problem is i think gamble is paid to be a man to man corner and with this soft as cover 2 poo he has to rely on our safeties to cover the deep ball, which invetably will be thrown since we cant aplly pressure with our front 4.

Simple change i would make is go to a man d,I'm more comfortable with our corners holding their own than i am the d-line. Also with a man D we can bring Harris up to support the run, occasionaly blitz. We can also let our corners blitz more and let a backer get out in coverage.

On offense i totally agree about getting smitty the ball often and early.I actually wasnt too terribly upset about offensive gameplan last week, rather the poor clock management and not kicking the field goal.

[Peppers90 NC]

We need more than 20 points. The yardage was good I guess, but overall production was not, and ultimately we scored less than they did.

[Achilles]

Can we not devise a gameplan that uses plays designed after 1962????

Seriously, sometimes I feel like Foxy wants to keep us as predictable and "old school" as possible. We have some dynamic talent on this team, but we have the most vanilla play calling in the league.

Teams have seen our gameplan over and over and over for the past 8 years and it has evolved very little.

YOu know why we can't convert a third down? Because the other team knows exactly what play we are about to run!!!! We have maybe 4-6 plays we use in 3rd and long and 5 of them are passes to Smitty.

I love the idea (mentioned in this thread) of making sure the gameplan calls for short passes to spread the ball among recievers. It would be awesome if Delhomme could connect with 7 different recievers early on. That would cause the defense to be guessing a little bit more.

We make it too easy for the opposition with our predictable, low risk playcalling.

I doubt that is something that will change this season. One of the reasons why I think Fox has taken this team as far as he can.

[Peppers90 NC]

DAMN'T, VANILLA is no longer permitted since preseason is over!!!

For the next game, we have to protect and bye some time. They play a lot of tight coverage which takes time for offenses to develop longer routes, but thats what the Giants did pretty effectively. Most quick passes will have to be out of the backfield before the safeties get there on their man coverages.

[CRA]

just dig up an old thread from the end of last season for the changes need on defense. same stuff applies.