Evero will return as DC

[grateflday]

Canales said "as of now" followed by "we have a lot of things to consider over the next couple of days"

Evero being here next season is not a sure thing. 

[onmyown]

I don’t really care. Let Canales do whatever he wants so success…or lack thereof is of his doing. Yes the defense is historically putrid but you gotta let the HC HC.

[45catfan]

I know how to mock my front 7 now staying with the 3-4 scheme.

[Chaos]

In all honesty, it sucks we now have to use next season to evaluate Evero assuming the talent arrives via draft/FA.  If Canales is right, cool, we would have probably been good with another DC anyway, still bringing in new talent this offseason.  If he's wrong, we're cooked next year too with Evero.

[Captroop]

Well if it's a done deal, I'm gonna lean HEAVILY on the copewagon that he was without Derrick Brown and Shaq. The biggest knock against this D was the utter inability to stop the run, and the centerpiece of our defensive line and the only non-JAG LB in our corps probably had something to do with that.

Hopefully we address the lack of talent in FA and draft and with the right pieces, Evero can put together a solid D. It's a tall order to turn around in a year, but again, we're DRAMATICALLY improving our defense just by getting 2 linchpin pieces healthy.

[Shotgun]

3 hours ago, flagfootballcoach28 said:

Not a fan of this. One of the most important traits for a good DC is in game adjustments and Evero is horrible at that. Offenses attacked us in the same exact way all game long throughout the entire season. Yea, I get that we lacked personal but a simple bracket, doubling a WR for example isn’t hard to do. 

I'm pretty sure Mike Evans could score 20 tds in a game against us and he still wouldn't change the coverage. lol 

[emhoward]

3 hours ago, panthers55 said:

I dont doubt he can coach when he has his players for his scheme but honestly I don't like his scheme. I want an aggressive attacking style with press man and blitzing up the run gaps. You can run it with a 3-4 or a 4-3  like LeBeau for Pittsburgh or Jim Johnson style for the Eagles. I hate the bend until you break rush 4 crap Evero used all year. I guess I will cling to the notion that so many injuries made him keep things simple and fail to change or adapt rather than he gave up.

That style sounds good, and LeBeau and JJ are for sure legends, but you really need some dawgs for that style to flourish I believe. The LeBeau style seems to need some dominant pass rushers, and JJ's style tends to need a dominant secondary and MLB. What happens when you have neither? What happens when you have league average talent at every position? Bend but don't break starts to make a lot of sense in that scenario. Maybe he'll get more aggressive as we add talent to the Defense.  

[DPardue]

The same DC who supervised a beat up defense that failed at historic levels is the same DC who, with a defense that still had the likes of Derrick Brown, Shaq Thompson, and Josey Jewell, gave up 47 points and nearly 200 yards rushing to a Saints team that finished with a 5-12 record and ranked 20th in the league in total offense. 

Keeping him is risky.  Canales and Morgan are going to look really bad if the team is really close to taking a significant step forward next season, but they can't because Evero and his defense are holding the team back. 

Just hard to imagine that a guy can captain one one of the worst (and arguably the worst) defenses in NFL history and and be brought back for a third season.

[NAS]

 

[BullCityP]

4 hours ago, jamos14 said:

I know that he can still coordinate a top tier defense but man.

Just letting him get "his guys" doesn't work.   

Fuller and Woods have been two of the worst on the defense.    Jewell is solid but a liability in the pass game.

Yea that's my only concern is that "his guys" that we brought in were straight azz

[CRA]

12 minutes ago, NAS said:

 

I want Evero and Dom gone.  

[KaijuGato]

Hot take incoming, hire Jerod Mayo for EE’s staff next year as an inside linebackers coach like he was for the Patriots under Belichick. 

[Mr. Scot]

26 minutes ago, KaijuGato said:

Hot take incoming, hire Jerod Mayo for EE’s staff next year as an inside linebackers coach like he was for the Patriots under Belichick. 

That's not necessarily a terrible take.

Some guys do way better as staff members than they do as the guy in charge.

[PleaseCutStewart]

While I wish he had been a bit more creative in his defensive playcalling, it is kind of hard to do so when your front 7 is complete ass at both stopping the run and rushing the passer. I feel like everyone cried "blitz" not realizing the bums we had in coverage not named Horn and (to a lesser extent) Jackson could barely cover for 2-3 seconds. And that is not to mention that even when we did blitz, we still struggled to get to the passer.

Our defense this year (after losing Shaq and Brown) was truly one of the least talented defenses I have ever seen take the field... not only for our franchise, but for the entire NFL.