Red Zone Nightmare vs Jax

Poor coaching and poor execution. Shazier changes this game easy but coaches choose a lot of these players and put them in the plays so if they fail horribly that's on them. Other teams suffer injuries too and the good ones with the good coaches (e.g. patriots) still get the no name fill ins making plays. To have the defense not make literally one play when needed falls squarely on the coaching.

 

I have said all along I like Vince but he's just not the force we need as a starter. He didn't step up his game enough this year to where it should be. First guy off the bench is probably his spot. We are still LB deficient. Watt has the skills to get there but after him (shazier excluded) we are not where we need to be. I'd go LB heavy in this draft as well as DBs.

 

Just the fact that there were 5 bullets was telling enough. Nice analysis though.

 

Blast you didn't need to go thru all that I could have told ya Spense sucked.......

Good breakdown, on the 2nd TD I agree have no clue what the hell Davis was doing I re winded it over and over with the kids and was like WTF????? I know Davis has had an up and down season more down than up I am hoping he will fix that. I was not a VW believer(as you know) but I thought he had a pretty good season and earned the spot. I think Shazier going down really hurt him on the field. Dupree is what he is at this point and I hope we look at a replacement in this draft for him....

 

No surprise Spence was the culprit on some of those plays, he can't get to the spot.

 

Players make play not the coaches.

 

Agreed for all of them.


T.J. appeared to have the proverbial "Deer in the headlights" look all game. Perhaps the moment was a bit too big for him? Something else? I am not 100% certain.


Bud and Spence were really not going to do much heading into this game anyway. I did expect Bud though to hold up on the edge a bit more though.


All in all, replacing Shazier will be no easy feat without question. His impact was missed in far more ways than orginally thought.

 

Failures in fundamentals are on the coaches. Do you think the guys replacing injued players on other teams are just that much greater than our players or are the coaches just better at instructing them on how to play?

 

I responded to your comment about making plays. Coaches don't make plays. Players make plays. The defensive players failed to make plays and execute vs the Jags.

Every team is built differently. Some teams have stronger depth at certain positions than other teams. Some teams can over come key losses depending on how they are built. The Steelers were down to a guy they had to sign from the street to play ILB.

 

And who's fault was that, who's fault is it we didn't have more that one back up or have a guy on the practice squad ready?

Guys rarely have success coming off the couch ans SS wasn't even that good before. Look at Revis who had talent during his career, he struggled coming back with KC.

 

It's no body's fault. Sometimes teams can have good depth at certain positions and sometimes they can't. It's the nature of the business.