the play when we blitzed two cb’s and they beat sharper for a td is exactly what is on your mind. i think the main problem with that particular play is that our “chuckie blitz”, as the announcers called it, produced no pressure on the qb. they picked up the blitz perfectly and were able to exploit our safety playing man with no over the top help. ask drew, he dreams of those situations.

he needs the right people in place to do the things he wants. Before I go any further I don’t want to sound lke this is the worst thing in the world but you asked and this is my take. He seems to still be calling the game like everyone in there is a starter. Troy Evans is a good player but he is not a good as Fujita. The backups seem to be out of place, loosing contain on the backside and the inexperience shows. The D line is not getting the pressure needed to help our banged up secondary so he is sending vlites that leave our secondary open. Fuijita is out and the backups are not filling that void, that’s why they are backups. Once the playoffs start and we can get the pieces back in place we will be fine. At this point I don’t really care about going undefeated. Again don’t get me wrong it would be awesome to do that but, let’s get the Lombardi Trophy where it has never been (in Metairie).

is “trying.” He tried out a lot of things against the Falcons, and they didn’t work too well. If he sticks with that against the Cowboys, I’d be concerned. But I think the main problem right now is the lack of a good strong-side defensive end. Charles Grant has eaten his way off the team, in my opinion. McCray hasn’t performed up to expectations. I’d like to see Hargrove shifted over, Ayodele and Ellis in the middle, and Will Smith finally cut loose from all the extra attention he gets. I would bet the house (well, almost) that this lineup would work much better than one with Grant in the game.

a head coach somewhere else next year. I think that 1) he’s obviously pretty great 2) blitzing leaves you open to the big play, as we have seen, but who wouldn’t have the plan to blitz Atlanta after the prior week?, 3) getting our starting corners back will totally change the complexion of the defense, again, and 4) I think our defense has been just questionable enough that GW is still here next year.

Keep in mind that the Jaguars DID digress statistically under Williams prior to his coming here. They went from 12th to 17th overall in yards given up and 10th to 21st in points surrendered. Not saying he hasn’t bettered this squad in some respects, but it’s not like EVERYTHING the guy has touched has turned to gold throughout his days as a DC.

now its just he’s trying to find the right schemes to use with the personell he’s had for the last few game to see which ones work the best. Its obvious that some of the blitz packages don’t work because the personell we have on the field at this time can’t execute them the way they need too. Not taking any thing away from our players because I think they all have talent but some are more talented than others when it comes to specific schemes and coverages. For instance you can use every blitz in the book and be effective when Porter and Greer are at the corner because they can stay with their man and they will always have Harper and Sharper to drop down and help like we saw in the first 6 or 7 weeks. McKenzie, Gay, and Jenkins can be trusted in zone coverages because they don’t have to worry about one specific person just the area they are assigned to like we saw in the Patiots game. Once we have the starting corners back I think we go back to being normal.

But GW is just feeling out what schemes work in my opinion. I just hope that now that he sees that the schemes he was throwing out the last 2 games don’t work with a developing rookie (Jenkins), a vet thats trying to get back to his regular form (McKenzie), and a corner with limited skill sets (Gay). They can’t play man to man plain and simple. the zone coverages that he pulled out in the Patriots game are best suited for the current secondary and I think (hope) that he will go back to them for the Dallas game.

Your making too much of it. Different teams bring different schemes and he’s doing it with second and third team players.

got a hill to climb. Redskins?? Falcons??

Redskins is the most worrisome, if you don’t take into account the fact that there was time to beat them, still (remember Miami??!?), even WITH a field goal!

1) I agree that Charles Grant is a problem
2) If aggressiveness is your theme, then be aggressive. It’s a frame of mind. Pressure the QB with whoever you have
        mix it up, but pressure. That’s hoe you get turnovers

3) We have done fine and will do better with the return of Fujita, Greer, and Porter
4) The players that have filled in need to play the same aggressive mode as the starters. It will pay off in the end. You
       don’t want them playing one way and the strarters playing differently
5) If it aint broke, don’t fix it.
6) The Eagles could never beat the Saints- The Gianst torched the Eagles for over 500 yds and only lost because of
     bad punt coverage and a couple of weird fumbles (Jacobs and Manning’s non slide)
7) The Eagles may not even make the playoffs
8) We beat everybody else, what makes you think we can’t beat the Vikings who already have 2 losses and may have more
9) Do you really think another team can come into OUR DOME and beat us?? Sheeeeez

which team we, each, don’t want to see in the playoffs.

and I think you will see them. Probably this week. Ia lso think you will see some Pressley in the mix. I think it has become apparent to everyone Grant is playing poorly. I think Gw wanted to give him multiple chance and he’s been very generous, but it might be past the breaking point.

But, I think everyone is overly concerned. Like I said in another post
1) we held Atlanta to 80 yds rushing
2) held Gonzalez to 50 ds
3) held Jenkins, White and Finneran to 7 total catches.

that’s pretty good stats for a banged up defense. 23 points given up isn’t all that bad- you would think anytime we only give up 23 ponts we should win- our offenes is averaging in the high 30s. Take away the 1 long td pass play and everything would look very different.

I sure hope I don’t hear complaints about the offense, now. I think they’re just saving their bullets for where they count. If not, we are lost.

19-0

GW misses a tackle, I might agree with you.