Eric Washington Wants to “make sure our scheme fits our personnel"

[JARROD]

49 minutes ago, Cartel de Carolina said:

Actually, the Saints bread and butter was their run game. 

We dictated to them that they were not going to beat us running the ball. 

But the problem is they have Brees and Payton, so they have no issue slanging the rock also. 

When it comes to D, you gotta see what the O likes to do and try to shut it down. 

Then you need to think about how they will counter and how you will counter their counter. 

Game plans and strategy should be fluid and evolving. 

 

I think Wilks did a great job, he destroyed their run game and had our dismal secondary held off even half of those chunk plays we could have won the game.

we also had Shula as Scott said

[panthers55]

12 hours ago, Cartel de Carolina said:

Actually, the Saints bread and butter was their run game. 

We dictated to them that they were not going to beat us running the ball. 

But the problem is they have Brees and Payton, so they have no issue slanging the rock also. 

When it comes to D, you gotta see what the O likes to do and try to shut it down. 

Then you need to think about how they will counter and how you will counter their counter. 

Game plans and strategy should be fluid and evolving. 

 

First of all that explains the last game not the first 2. We gave up 160 and 150 yards on the ground the first 2 times we played. The third time we stopped the run but gave up 376 yards passing. We didn't dictate anything simply stopped one part of their game to get killed by the other phase.

They scored over 30 points all three games against us. They score 30 or more in only 3 of their other 13 games and none of the 4 games against Atlanta and Tampa. Anyone who thinks he did a good job against New Orleans or thinks we controlled or dictated anything has no clue what they are watching.

[panthers55]

11 hours ago, JARROD said:

He had to go zone more because we don’t have the secondary to go man to man often.

watch other posts where people complain we went man to man too much and stressed our secondary too much.

Our secondary sucks, and I think Wilks made the defense look at lot better than it was by maximizing our best asset, front 7 and minimizing the weakness(DB) by going zone coverage a lot.

 

Actually our secondary doesn't suck if you think about the linebackers, safeties and DBs working together. You could make the case we had some of the best linebackers in the league as Davis and Kuechly were probowlers this year. Add that Adams and Coleman didn't go from great a few years ago to terrible now. What changed was the scheme of the secondary situationally. The opponent passing rating was 94 in 2017 and 92 in 2016. Not that much change. In 2015 it was much better at 73 but in 2014 was 89.  So if we kick out 2015 really they have been consistent and roughly middle of the pack. No our secondary wasn't great and instead of protecting our secondary Wilks put second year players on an island with no help. What he thought he should do was pressure offenses to help the secondary but actually his pressure packages were poor and he hung out the secondary to dry. Now in all fairness if he stayed I think he would have tweaked things and they would have improved but honestly offenses had us figured out and abused us because Wilks was too predictable. At least when Jim Johnson blitzed he brought the whole house so quarterbacks were on the defensive and couldn't sit back and pick us apart. Blitzing 5 put the defense at a disadvantage unless you actually get there. Too many times we didnt. Even when we played zone players sat back passively in their drops and didn't communicate and attack receivers when they came into their zone.  How many times were there three defenders and one receiver in the area and the receiver was wide open? How many times were there 2 and 3 receivers wide open on a play? Some of that may be players execution but it was also poor scheme and communication. They work together. Wilks made a bunch of mistakes but what would you expect given it was his first year? But let's be clear he didn't do a great job and he could have helped the secondary a lot more than he did...

 

[TheSpecialJuan]

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[Cartel de Carolina]

On 1/31/2018 at 10:44 PM, panthers55 said:

First of all that explains the last game not the first 2. We gave up 160 and 150 yards on the ground the first 2 times we played. The third time we stopped the run but gave up 376 yards passing. We didn't dictate anything simply stopped one part of their game to get killed by the other phase.

They scored over 30 points all three games against us. They score 30 or more in only 3 of their other 13 games and none of the 4 games against Atlanta and Tampa. Anyone who thinks he did a good job against New Orleans or thinks we controlled or dictated anything has no clue what they are watching.

I was talking about the last game. 

Saints are a run first team this year. 

They destroyed us on the ground in previous meetings. 

The Saints wanted to do the same thing. 

However, the Panthers sold out on the run. 

Forcing the Saints to go to plan B. 

Fortunate for them, their plan be is also deadly. 

But we shut down what they wanted to do and made them go to plan B