Jim Johnson needs to go...

[TexasEagle]

When it comes to the defense and blitzing I've really been wondering where all the crazy blitzing angles went too. Before blitzers would fly in from every direction at any time. Safety's up the middle or the edge. Corners off the edge. LB's up the middle or looping around. People were flying around all over... that's what made all those blitzes effective. Now if there's a blitz, it's either coming from one side with the blitzer right on the LOS or the LBs are jammed up in the middle before the snap. You can see the blitzes coming a mile away. All the trickery seems to be gone.

[Diomedes]

Just as passing is the crack AR loads into the glass dick he's constantly sucking, blitzing is the heroin JJ is pumping into his collapsed veins.  It's become utterly predictable.  You can rhapsodize all you like about how complicated and inventive the blitz schemes were/are, but if the opposition can count on the blitz coming reliably, then all they have to do is figure a way to block it more often than not, and they have the winning solution.  We've seen that JJ isn't making good adjustments to his strategy mid game, so stopping the blitz is about all opponents have to do.  He doesn't need more inventive blizting, he needs more inventive strategy generally.

[TexasEagle]

That's the point though, Dio. The blitzes were harder to block before because opposing O's never knew where they were coming from (or even when). Now, since they're so predictable and obvious, a decent line will jam up the middle and negate the blitz and any halfway decent QB will shred the secondary all day. I'm also curious why the corners are so laz on the press at the LOS and why they usually have 10 yard cushions all day allowing 5-7 yard underneath passes with alarming consistency. If it wasn't for TD Lewis back there I'd wonder why teams even bother to throw deep when they can dink and dunk down the field all day.

[The BIGSTUD]

Jim Johnson is fine. For one, the personnel has to be accountable, and secondly... where was this topic after we sacked Bledsoe 7 times last week and held one of the league's most explosive offenses to 3 points in the second half?

Again, as I said in my other topic, this team has always been a bend but don't break defense. When they start to break it looks awful. Well factor in Lewis and stupid mistakes, this defense couldn't recover. You can't give other teams the ball on the 15 and expect to hold them to field goals every time. The Michael Lewis play was, well... Michael Lewis. On the first TD drive McCoy gave the Saints that 15 yard horse collar penalty.

Does the defense need to play better? Yes. Do our players need to play smarter? Yes. Does Jim Johnson need to go? No.

[Geowhizzer]

Without the horse-collar penalty, the Saints have the TD then and there.

[MURP]

I thought Aikman was talking about how Jim Johnson wasnt blitzing against the Saints.   

[The BIGSTUD]

They may or may not have scored a TD on that drive anyway, but eventually teams are going to score TDs. The fact is if it weren't for Michael Lewis then we they wouldn't have even scored a TD in the second half, and if it weren't for the 12 men on the field, they wouldn't have score a point period. Jim Johnson can actually adjust at half-time unlike Andy Reid.

Start Considine, cut down on the penalties, and this defense drastically improves on those two things alone. But that doesn't mean they don't still need to fix other things because they do. They need to stop the run better, and cover the underneath stuff better.

[General_Failure]

Jim Johnson is fine.

More proof that you should have done the world a favor yesterday and paid up.

[Diomedes]

I thought Aikman was talking about how Jim Johnson wasnt blitzing against the Saints.

Perhaps I'm going overboard by accusing JJ of being a worn out one trick pony, but I'm not so sure that it's an unfair criticism in spirit, just in degree.  It used to work a lot more often than it has of late.  I didn't see yesterday's game, so I have no idea how much blitzing was done.

[General_Failure]

There wasn't much blitzing, just short dropbacks to negate the pass rush. Oh, and that thing where they just hand the ball off to somebody instead of throwing it. I forget what that's called.

[hbionic]

Overall, I feel we've been doing great against the run. Maybe as far as top ten and things like that we're not up there, but it has felt as though we've controlled the opposing running game and limited its overall impact in the game.

Houston-they were pretty much shut down.

New York- Tiki didn't rape us as he usually does.

San Franicsco- Gore who?

Green Bay- Can't name him.

Dallas- Jones & Barber were invisible most of the game.

New Orleans- McCallister & Bush, they had a few 7 to 9 yards gains but it came in spurts.

Our weakness has been against the pass, which I find it disappointing.


New Orleans's game plan and execution was perfect in the first half in making us play on our heels. Bush was heavily utilized as a reciever out of the backfield ala Westbrook. It sucks that we have to wait until the half to make adjustments. I never understood that part of football.

[Wingspan]

I thought Aikman was talking about how Jim Johnson wasnt blitzing against the Saints.   

almost as soon as the commentators said they had only blitzed on 4 occasions up to that point... seemed to me johnson started to call more.

[Beermonkey]

Seems just like yesterday that everyone was bitching about the defense "carrying" the offense. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

I disagree that he needs to go.

What he needs to do is change things up a little bit from time to time.

When he sees a QB taking 3 step drops he needs to have them play press coverage. Do unto them what the Panthers did to the Eagles offense in 2003. Push them off thier routes. In a 3 step drop its all about timing. If the guy isn't where he is supposed to be the QB has to pull down the ball and run or make a hurried throw.

He played too much zone yesterday. Way too much.

[Magical_Retard]

i didnt get to see the game so im going by what ive heard....but after the dallas game where we showed that no matter how good the WR's corps is...if we get early pressure we can disturb the offense....why didnt we blitz all out to start out with?