Nick Harper - Ouch

i just dont understand why our safeties were biting so hard on the play action. they hadn't run the ball succesfully all day and the stops on the run plays were being made by our LBs and DTs/DEs. there was no need for them to bite. we were shutting their run down at the LoS.

 

I understand you guys are gloomy after the past two weeks, but as an outsider, I'm not sure that the two are necessarily related. Yes, haynesworth was the lynchpin of your D; that's your major problem right now. Your schemes were all predicated on the fact that: 1) running up the middle on you was suicidal; and 2) you could generate pressure via a four man ruseh, particularly since Haynesworth demanded a double team (and often more) on every play. That doesn't mean last year's D was a fluke - but it does mean that your DC needs to figure out a new way of deploying his players now that Haynesworth is gone.

 

here's an idea: LINE UP ON THE EFFING BALL.

 

nick harper is the only CB i can remember to get flagged for pass interference and STILL give up a WIDE OPEN touchdown.

 

Our defense could not be better against the run the last 2 games.

Also haynesworth misses about half the plays.


Obviously we are better with a player like that than to not have him but that is no excuse here and we have had weak defenses with him here.

Our safeties not doing their job alone has cost us the 2 games.

 

Yup. Unfortunately, the Jets need that ground game . . .

BTW, I obviously haven't watched much of the Titans - are they stopping the run with just the front 4/7? Or are the safeties a big part of that?

 

its a majority linemen/linebackers.

 

That's why it burnt me up whenever I saw Griffin cheating up to help run support, when our front seven was easily containing Slaton and Mr. Glass; especially when his overzealousness on that one play cost us a TD.