Phil Snow's Defense

[Mr. Scot]

20 minutes ago, philit99 said:

I’m sure you are right, Ron would agree with me. lol. Mr. Scot they scored in less than 1 minute. What is worse, rush 4 and they score on a 80 yard bomb, or rush three and force them to score on 4 plays, and chew up 1 minute?

I guess it doesn’t really matter. I want Phil Snow to succeed, but he has to make some adjustments to his calls. You have to be unpredictable especially in a predicable scenario. If we would have sent a blind side CB bitz on the first 3 down linemen play, it would have been a sack and maybe even a strip sack. However, it would have changed the Vikings play calling because they would not know if we were blitzing or play prevent. We are too vanilla, and too predictable.

I'm not sold on Snow yet, but it's fair to say his personnel aren't exactly top notch.

[LinvilleGorge]

Snow was calling a great game until late. It always baffles me that teams will have success being aggressive all game long but lose their nerve late and try to avoid losing instead of trying to actually win. 

[Mage]

14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Snow was calling a great game until late. It always baffles me that teams will have success being aggressive all game long but lose their nerve late and try to avoid losing instead of trying to actually win. 

I agree, but even with that being the case, I'd still argue the defense played tremendously today.  Scored 14 points.  Vikings only had 10 going into the 4th quarter.

Panthers defense should have never been in a position to lose the game in the first place.  I hope Snow gets better calling the defense in those situations but I think overall, he and the defense did phenomenal.  

[philit99]

1 minute ago, Mage said:

I agree, but even with that being the case, I'd still argue the defense played tremendously today.  Scored 14 points.  Vikings only had 10 going into the 4th quarter.

Panthers defense should have never been in a position to lose the game in the first place.  I hope Snow gets better calling the defense in those situations but I think overall, he and the defense did phenomenal.  

I didn’t see whitehead did you? lol

[MHS831]

With his current personnel, he is limited.

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, MHS831 said:

With his current personnel, he is limited.

I agree with this.

Now, does it necessarily mean that he will be better with better personnel?

While having better personnel obviously helps, there's no guarantee that he'll prove to be a great defensive coordinator under those circumstances.

Plenty of guys with good players still prove to be lousy coaches.

[Harbingers]

32 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I agree with this.

Now, does it necessarily mean that he will be better with better personnel?

While having better personnel obviously helps, there's no guarantee that he'll prove to be a great defensive coordinator under those circumstances.

Plenty of guys with good players still prove to be lousy coaches.

Starting to worry Rhule is going to end up in that latter category.