Saleh gets all the heat for the defense but we hired this dude to coach alongside after he coached the 28th ranked defense last year and has been a positions coach down in Atlanta whose had a trash defense since I can remember. This clown deserves a fire him thread too.
Ulbrich became the DC in October after Morris became the interim HC. They played well down the stretch when he became DC. In those final 11 games, the Falcons ranked in the top third of the league in opponents third-down percentage and opposing red zone touchdown percentage, while also allowing the sixth fewest rushing yards per game. This is his first gig as DC from the gate and he comes from that cover 3 like scheme Saleh uses.
I was ok with him until the last game. Unprepared. Making Sherwood play caller was disaster. Teams getting 1st downs on 3rd and long driving me nuts! I knew we were undermanned, but coaching has been mediocre to bad on the D. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Forget about play caller, Sherwood had no business playing MLB period. I heard Saleh was singing the praises of Sherwood last week before the game. I don't think I can recall a player so dominated by the opposition as he was on Sunday. That in itself makes Saleh and Ulbrich look bad. Despite that, these fire the coaches threads are ridiculous. This is to be expected when you bring in a new regime to a team that had so little talent. We're at Square One of a rebuild, like it or not. Things are bound to go haywire at times. Wake me at the end of next season. Then I'll want the coaches fired.
Sherwood doesn’t call plays he just relays what he’s told and was reportedly a very good guy to call out the defense. Besides with the LB group as beat up as it was there really wasn’t much other options. He’s also still a rookie and the defense was all out of wack a few times. I do blame JU for things like that and the certain fits the defense was in.
I like Sherwood and Nasirildeen for the future. It's mission impossible to put everything on these guys at this stage of their career. We simply got no-one else as pathetic as that is. Now they're both out for season. What a fukcin nightmare.
Man it was horrendous last week! I remember Lee as rookie, it was similar. Not to be hard on the rookies, but the DC is responsible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
So how much of that performance has to do with a particularly expensive linebacker being out last week? And if the answer is “a lot” then it serves them right for putting all their eggs in one basket. I think they would have been blown out with or without him, it was just uglier than it might have been.
Really need a pass rush and for the CB group to gain experience. The former has to be a top priority in next year's draft as Lawson is injury prone and JFM isn't a game changing player.
So what is your point? His D is bottom of the league and is IMHO as bad as last years with arguably better talent.
A bigger issue than being a rookie is that Sherwood is a Saftey who we converted to LB in camp. So he is a rookie playing a new position that he is undersized for. It was an experiment that failed. Deciding he could play LB is one of the reasons our LB room is so thin. That is on the coaching.
huh, point is that’s…his defense played well when he was calling the plays last year with the Falcons…between that and his connection with Seattle running a cover 3 is the reason why he got the job. Or let’s just run everyone off after a batch of games…
Do you not find it concerning that we're just as bad as we were with Gase despite having a significantly more talented roster?
Not completely sure this is true. Yes he was awful sunday. But a 5th round project pick shouldnt even be playing. The experiment of converting him to safety hasn't failed yet we are just seeing the experimentation that should be happening during practice week on Sunday game day
They gave up 23 PPG and in 5/11 of those games quarterbacks had a passer rating greater than 100. A sixth was at 95. I mean they played better than they did the first four games I guess.
The Jets havent intercepted anyone all season. I think that's something a D-coordinator can affect with his schemes. It would be one thing if there were alot of dropped INTs and/or misplays on the ball but it doesnt seem like thats the case here Opposing QBs: 156-226 (69% completion) 1650 yards (275ypg) 7TD 0INT, 5-1 record. That's a pro-bowl season through 6 games if it was one guy. But its QBs that wont end up in the pro bowl (Darnold, Mac Jones x2, Tannehill, Ryan, Bridgewater)
