Originally posted by pasodoc9er:
Well, Kolo, it's a a compliment that you went back and read, or maybe remembered my previous comments...and i pretty much remember yours(especially since, as you noted, this argument is a rehash of those had before). As for a 6 man line, no, unless in 3rd and real short, i haven't seen one before(unless on goal line). But i will tell you this: i sure wondered why not when we, time after time, game after game, couldn't get a passrush on the qB. Just out of curiousity, do you recall ANYTIME in recent 7 yrs we have done that and sustained it? I sure don't.
Well if you looked at the second half of the year when Singletary took over you would see the difference in pass-rush, you would also see the difference in run-stopping. Did you ever go back and look at what side of the DL Pary's Haralson managed to get most of his sacks??
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As for run D, as you well know, K, having a good run D and NO pass D(due to total failure to produce passrush in last 7 yrs)...well, it doesn't make for a good overall D, and nobody is disputing that. What good is a pass D when nobody can get a push on the passer? And that has been us, noln, erickson, Yorks, combined 6-7 yrs.
Seeing that you said this in your first paragraph, you can also see above in my first reply. Which also brings me back to why I said you rant on total frustration. But isn't this a thread on Sopoaga, and isn't Sopoaga's main priority as a D-linman in a 3-4 defense to stop the run??
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Yes, we probably will play a 3-4(sometime, maybe all the time), and maybe, due to lack of talent, or perhaps lack of coaching , or maybe crappy drafting and FAing, or most likely all 3, we won't be very good at it. When we can't get a push on the QB, maybe we should be in a 4, or 5 man DL. Who knows, maybe even a 6 man. All i am saying is that a middle of the road run D is fine, but if the other team can literally pass on us at will, and they do, why NOT try a 6 man DL? Sure it sounds weird, but haven't you ever seen us on 3rd and whatever, know a pass is coming, and just as surely, know we won't get passrush on the QB?
(nods head) A 6 man DL, I thought this was sarcasm from your first paragraph. But are you serious, for one, we have no dominate FS to pull that off, two, any team that lines up 4 wide would eat us alive....I won't go any further on this.
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And like it or not, the DL HAS to be part of that. For seven yrs it hasn't. So maybe we do need to do something unconventional like play 6 man DL. What could it hurt? What we are doing now doesn't work, and just stopping the run (in the middle of the pack) isn't going to get it in the nfl. Add to that our inferior talent along the DL(or as i said, maybe it is the incredibly poor coaching, or game calling)...and i believe it all contributes to our defensive ineptitude.
OK, don't know if you know this but, as a defense your main objective SHOULD be to stop the run first. If you can't do that, the QB would be comfortable all day long with no stress on having to win the game with the team on his back. And if you can't stop the run, than teams also like to win by what they call time-of-possession.
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Finally, since i have not made an issue out of it in a long time, is the $ issue. Did you, or i, expect our bosses(unless you are self employed), ever expect to get mammoth payraises, BASED ON POTENTIAL? Certainly not in my case, nor in anyone else's i know. I know, i know, soap looks like one menacing, impressive sonof*gun. FRankly, he should scare people. But do you really think his tepid play since arrival was worth dropping another $20 or 24mil on the guy? Man, i sure don't . Nor do i think that is sound football practice on ANYBODY, not just soap, yet that's what our mgmt did.
Again, maybe you should go back and REALLY understand what his contract looks like, then you might not think it looks so MAMMOTH. Seriously people. do you guys even know his contract, 20 mil for 5 years (not all is guaranteed) is pretty average. Chris Canty hadly did that much better than Sopoaga's first year starting and he got BANK.
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My comment on that move was "harebrained", but deserving... it was not. Soap is paid on-the-come, not on performance, and frankly, that bothers the heck out of me, especially on a team this bad for 7 long, painful yrs. At what point, K, do we say, "Ah jeez, soap was a mistake?" Are you ready for him to continue to develop, but not be a factor on D? And if so, for how long? That is my issue. We keep waiting, but all i see is the same thing. Surely, somebody upstairs has to be cognizant of that.
You need to do a little research, our defense has only ranked 32nd once in 2005, other than that we been a middle of the pack defense, ranked in the teens and 20's, but not as bad as you make them to be.
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Kolo, as i see this team now--- turn back the clock--- and i just see us where we were 7 yrs ago, w/r/to performance...ie, i don't see us much better now than we were then. And for 7 yrs, that is a disgrace---put the blame where you like. Is soap part of that...a poor choice, that we are going to keep riding until he retires? Just out of curiousity, how long do you give a guy like that before saying "Enough"?
Maybe you should go back and look at the film of the second half, and you will see that Sopoaga is HARDLY the problem on defense.
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If that is ranting and raving, then i confess...GUILTY as charged. But everything written above is just a compilation of game tapes on "how not to do it" . Every time i go thru them i feel worse...like somebody, maybe a lot of somebodies, has let us down. Soap just happens to be one of them.
Yes it was ranting and raving, and most had little to do with Sopoaga and a lot of it was repetitive.
