Look at how Pietre was killing the Steelers. They can keep Kyle at the nickel, just need someone better at tackling with more speed at the other safety position.
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You're right Marvin Lewis old-school 2000's defense was a 4-3 single-gap fit.
Then switched to 3-4 with Rex Ryan/Mike Nolan....Suggs being a stand-up OLB (I can be wrong).
With Orr we're usually 4-2-5 nickel (w/3 safeties)...not necessarily a pure 3-4..
I feel like Orr's biggest issue was how he used our scheme not the scheme itself.
He was terrible at calling coverages (soft zones, lack of disguise, conservative stunts, leverage issues) and how players execute leverage and spacing.
-Soft off-zone/spot-drop zones....DBs would be 8-12 yards off. We constantly conceded chunk plays, couldn't get off the field, and were giving up first downs.
-Static disguises misaligned LBs/DBs so bad that they would be out of position post-snap.
-LBs/DBs taking inside leverage when the safety is already inside, leaving the outside wide open lol.
Solution moving forward.....
-Pees bend but don't break zones is garbage. NEVER AGAIN!
-Implement more match coverage (Quarters / Cover 3 Match / 2-read) as our base coverage. Instead of soft spot drop Cover 3/Cover 4.
-Allow our coerners to challenge receivers on their release....through press, press-bail, squeeze routes, etc
-Orr always talked about organized chasos but guys who excelled with Macdonald seemed confused pre-snap with Orr....I don't get it
-With Orr QBs seemed to always have a clean pre-snap picture lol
-Under Mac, offenses saw chaos pre-snap and didn’t know who was in the rush or in coverage. Under Orr it’s been much flatter.
-Re-install a weekly disguise package
-Get back to 5-man simulated pressures on passing downs:
Under Orr, we leaned heavily on two-gapping out of those hybrid fronts, which is fine, but it turns the DL into block-eaters instead of play-makers and asks the LBs to be perfect.
-Mix in single-gap “attack” calls where everyone has one gap and plays vertical.
-Use slants and angle fronts so OL can’t just double Travis and Dremont Jones then climb to the ILBs.
-For passing downs turn Travis Jones, and Peebles (lol) loose with stunts.
-Use wider alignments (wide-9 loose 5's) in high % passing downs
- We can still keep the 2 gap stuff for short yardage and some early downs....but we gotta mix it up
I'm just a regular guy in Salesforce/NetSuite consulting....Feel like I can scheme something up better than Orr smh
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He said that Lamar wants to be involved in the HC search and that interviewing is an all day event so if he wants to be involved he needs to be in the building. He said Lamar is on board so we'll see what comes from that. I thought the press conference was pretty good and Bisciotti kept it 100. What I found interesting is that he says he wants to win a few more SBs and then step away. Sounds to me like they are going to really take their time with this coaching search and make sure they get it right.
