The Defense

[Munson]

The Michael Havas thought process=

Michael Vick: Stop making excuses for him!

Sean McDermott: It's not him! It's the talent!

[lurking wierdo]

Johnson religiously played his secondary 5 yds deep in the endzone. Is Jauron/McDermott plaing shallower or deeper?

[Eagaholic]

And, why is the talent so bad? Couldn't have anything to do with the coaching could it?

[ice grillin you]

yeah all moises foku - ernie sims - joselio hanson - dmitri patterson - kurt coleman - quinton mikell - juqua parker and jamar chaney need is to be coached up a little

[PhillyPhreak54]

igy..McDermott sucks AND they need better talent. But even if they got better players the scheme and him would still suck ass.

He deserves to be fired.

[ice grillin you]

you me and everyone else has no idea if this scheme would work with good players

if they even had average talent and the defense was horrific i might agree with you but the talent level is lower than low...to the point where coaching scheming game planning ect.... just doesnt matter

[MDS]

quick side question:

where is trent cole? i thought he was supposed to be good.

[ice grillin you]

trent cole is the andre iguodala of football players

[MDS]

i think its at least once per day someone on here claims if they get a great DE to go with cole this team will be unstoppable

as if trent cole is reggie white or something

[PhillyPhreak54]

New DC.

Start with that. Let's see what happens.

[QB Eagles]

The whole pass rush went missing around midseason, after a solid first half.

Cole was still getting a lot more pressure than anyone else, but only cause everyone else's play dropped off too. And Cole is good overall, but even when he's on a hot streak he's not that elite level guy who strikes fear into a defense. He's just not a liability like the other guys.

The Eagles made a big bet on Graham being the guy. Unless they luck out on a middle-round draft pick, anyone else they get is probably just going to be another rotational DE, like the 100 other guys who have cycled through over the past few years.

[Hawk]

How is he not at fault?? How about that third down when it was clear no one was covering the slot receiver... followed by Rodgers hitting the slot receiver for a 10 yard gain and first down...

Or how about having the most predictable blitzing schemes ever... everyone and their mother knows when a linebacker/safety/etc are blitzing

Fire the loser.

[General_Failure]

The primary reason I want to see a new DC, if we're ignoring how awful this defense played this year, is I want to see a new philosophy towards the players they draft. No more scrappy little guys. No more seventh round starters. No more guys playing positions they can't actually play.

[lurking wierdo]

I think McDermott was the right guy under the circumstances 09. He is actuall good at using Johnson's schemes. But that's the problem. You need to keep innovating and evolving. The 5 year old scheme is old hat to the league now. Those old revolutionary blitzes are no longer surprising anyone. We really need an innovator, McDermott obviously isn't the answer.

[Munson]

I'm trying to see how IGY blames the talent for scheming a play where Darryl Tapp covers Donald Driver on a 3rd and 10.