View topic - New Article: What NEEDS to Happen - 2012

[stilltrap Profile]

I am all for the OL's. Not crazy about corners, unless it's for one in the first round who immediately starts. We have already got Lewis, Brown, and Allen who have been through the Lebeau Chinese to English Defense dictionary. No sense in doing that again with another draft class, save for the previously mentioned first round stud.
The new OC needs to have the intelligence to see what's happening around the league, with TE's cruising the middle seam downfield, keeping the safeties honest. Ours had to stay in and block.

[Pump-N-Iron Profile]

While I agree that a tall receiver would give us another option in the red zone, I feel fairly confident in stating that the lion's share of our Red Zone issues departed with Bruce Arians. Arians was fine moving the ball from 20 to 20, but since there was NEVER a rhyme nor a reason to any of his playcalling, his lack-of-scheme failed miserably once we got in scoring range. His Red zone offense can be summed up thusly:

1st Down: Waste a down on a running play. No one will expect that (heavy sarcasm here)
2nd Down: WR screen pass that is stopped for minimal yardage, since the opposing defense studied 3 minutes of game film
3rd Down: Call Shotgun Pass and hope BR7 makes a play.

Unless we had the good fortune of being 1st & Goal at the 2, then it becomes:

1st Down: Run off tackle. No one will expect that. Lose a yard
2nd Down: Run off tackle again. Nobody would guess that play twice in a row. Gain back lost yard from 1st Down.
3rd Down: Run off tackle again. Certainly, they have to guess pass this time, Right? Trot out the FG team.

From what I've read, Colbert is planning to move Glibert to LT and keep Colon at RT. This means that he is probably targeting a G on day 1 (probably round 2). I agree that we have plenty of young cover CBs in the fold already. None of them are shut down guys, but I think the FO will look elsewhere with the first pick. I really think they are targeting ILB or NT, since the tread on Farrior & Hampton's tires are getting mighty thin.