Quote Originally Posted by State82 View Post
This week's burning question. Our multimillion dollar staff needs to answer. Mind boggling.
That is our fault. I am afraid that Mullen has a large role in our D plan. Think the opposite of JLD? JLD brought the house all the time and folks killed us eventually when we lost our NFL level talent and we stubbornly kept doing the same dumb shit. Think the opposite of that.....we have domesticated our D linemen to simply "engage and eat space" or whatever....I would bet you 50 cents that if Nick James shed a block, went crazy and destroyed a QB he would get benched because he "failed to occupy his zone/lane!" It is the same theory of "don't give up the big play (Mullen is thinking "I don't want to make a mistake") so we become so passive and predictable we give up shit tons of big plays. Same with our offense.....field position and turnovers are so worrisome for Dan, he babbles about that, but our lack of variability in play calling makes us easy to stop, especially lately, see A and OM.

We NEVER brought creative blitzes thereby putting worlds of pressure on our under talented safeties and don't get me started on turtle playing Engram over the middle, that was brutal.

I worry that Dan's "philosophy" is at the root of all of this and in the off season he needs to take some MMA fighting class and some testosterone pills.