Gray's defensive scheme

I don't get it. Gray comes in and, supposedly, simplifies the defensive scheme so that the players are playing instinctively and not having to spend all their time thinking about assignments. He says the DL is going to get bigger. He talked about showing a 3-4 and finding someone who can give him some flexibility there.

So we get bigger and find that doesn't work so go smaller. I didn't see any 3-4 looks yesterday. For a team who is supposedly not having a lot of assignment responsibilities, they were out of position far too often.

What concerns me most is that I saw a defense more concerned about not losing instead of winning.

I respect Brady but the CBs were playing way off to avoid the big play. And moving Griff to SS was proven to be a bad idea. If the Titans wanted to have Johnson on the field at FS so bad, they never should have paid Griff just to move him to SS. Go out and use the money to get a SS.

 

It's not much different from how they used to play Manning. Only give them the short stuff, make the tackle and make them drive the field. It didn't work well then and didn't yesterday. If you don't disrupt timing, you are only going to die by 1,000 cuts. It's like being in a Prevent-lite defense the entire game.

Rivers will have a field day next Sunday.