No. The 46 would knock the QB out of the game.

What concepts gave you problems, offensively? Could screens be effective? How often was the safety matched on the slot? Or the backer mismatched in coverage against a good tight end? Any of this? 🤔

@@oursport5889 Hi, good questions. I’ll try to break this down into each question. Offensive Concept Problems: In the 90’s we faced run oriented attacks so we never faced anything that we couldn’t solve in a couple of quick adjustments. In the early 2000’s we faced mostly spread/air raid attacks. At first the 4-wide vs our 3 zone was an issue. We tried running a 3 match but couldn’t find continuity across the back end. We eventually switched to a 2 Read and mixed Cv 0 with a Mike Go or Mike Spy call. We had success with this and we were able to hold teams to around 20 instead of 30-35 points in some cases. Screens Problematic?: No, screens never burned us. We ran a lot of screens ourselves so I believe that it helped keep our defense honest. Like anything else, if someone was out of position, forgot the assignment, etc, something could break for a big gain, but screens were never a concern. Safety vs Slots: So this one was why I transitioned into coaching and gave up my dream to play pro LOL. In college I was a Rover in a 7 Diamond defense, which was a generic Bear type defense. The Rover was a SS/OLB/NB depending on the call. I could not run vertical with a lot of the slots and got burned deep. When I started coaching, I came up with some calls that would help stop this problem with an auto double (Cv 7 for me) which put the FS in an auto double of the slot whenever the SS was matched up with a slot. We always emphasized the CB position and I was lucky to have good to very good players at CB all those years. We never worried about consistent big plays on the outside. We also had a Green call which was a 2 deep look (off the Jahawk adjustment for the Bear defense) with the CB’s M/M and the LB’s and Safeties were in a match zone. The Will could slide out and play tight/under the slot with the safety over the top. This worked because the QB would see the Will but not the safety. Those were really the only calls that we needed. LB vs TE issues?: We never had a TE issue. If they had a big TE, Sam would cover. If they had a Flex, Move or Athletic player at TE, we used Will to cover. Or we just ran our zones where whenever the Sam or Will rushed, the SS filled the area. We ran different personnel throughout the years (3-4, 3-3-5, 4-3, 2-4-5), but the concepts were the same. If we had a problem, we moved players to different positions first and then if that didn’t work, we made a coverage and/or pressure change. The goal was to keep players from learning more than 3 techniques and then be able to utilize their skills in any call. If we couldn’t use the techniques in a call, we abandoned it. The scheme was definitely the Bear, but it looked a lot more like Rex Ryan’s version than either Rob or Buddy’s. We fit the scheme to our players instead of vice versa. Most years I had a NG who looked like a LB or FB type instead of a big bull and those guys were quick and disruptive. Some coaches had said “nah they’re too small, I’d never play him there”. I’m fine with that. I’m not them and they’re not me. We all have to do the best we can with what we have and then believe in ourselves, the players and then the schemes. Things always seem to work best that way. I didn’t mean to write a book, but feel free to ask if something wasn’t clear and I can do my best to explain it better.

Yep His Jets holding the 68 Colts to 7 pts was even bigger than SB 20!!

@FWFrank Yes. I will always believe that Ryan was fired by the Eagles because the owner was made to feel unwelcome by other other NFL owners due to the Eagles reputation as mean and nasty, especially on defense. Firing Ryan left a vacuum in that division that was filled by the 1991 Redskins SB team & then the Cowboys dynasty. Maybe those things were inevitable but Ryan was an excellent defensive coach.

If you think that then you don’t know shit about football 😂

What do you mean man? So touch football isn't the future of the NFL? I thought the future of the NFL was kill the multimillion dollar quarterbacks!@@DownfallHitlerParody