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<blockquote data-quote="GreenBaySlacker" data-source="post: 582271" data-attributes="member: 9780"><p><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" />I am new here. Spent years on Yahoo boards til they shut down. ESPN boards for years too. This is my new spot. I've never gotten credit for my outside the box thinking. Which has been admitedly ignorant, and uninformed at times<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" />. But I also called for things years before they actually happened. And as said before, NOBODY ever said good job. For instance......lol</p><p></p><p>I debated we should impliment a 5-2-4 defense. Inspired by the apparent 6-4 of the 85 bears. And the tallent and weaknesses on our roster. We had KGB and Kampman who were the ends. And IMO were fast and agile enough to drop back into coverage if the offense dictated... Jenkins was still a DT, and Packers brass had not taken my advice to make him a DE yet...Then we had Williams, and Jolly. In the middle I wanted Grady Jackson. I figured it would stomp the run, and pressure the passer so much as to create mistakes. Barnett and young Hawk were sideline to sideline. Woodson/Harris, or was it McKenzie at the time? Along with Sharper and young Collins, I believed the secondary could antisipate the dump offs, and basicly smother the offense completely..... OH MAN DID I TAKE CHIT! for months i fought it out!!! Not long after Capers came in and we changed to a 3-4. Which was my first education on what a 3-4 even was. As it turned out everyone LOVED the 3-4 defense and Capers was a defensive mastermind (early general perception). Well guess what?????? A 5-2 defense is a 3-4 defense!!! Just calling pass rushing OLBs a defensive end. Aldon Smith a DE or OLB. He's called a OLB but in my book that big **** is a DE......... Months of ridicule! And I still believe a good 3-4 depends completely on getting the pressure of 4 guys with 3 elite D-linemen.... Picking up the slack with LBs is pointless if you have LBs against bigger blockers! The advantage of 4 LBs is that you can strike from 4 different gaps when blitzing. The other most important thing is a great secondary. If your secondary sucks, you cant play a 3-4 without the whole scheme losing its advantages...</p><p></p><p>I debated that our pass attack was so good. And our run game was soooooooo bad (at the time). Why dont we use the pass to open up the run? OH THE STUFF I WAS CALLED!!! lol Historically if you abandon the run, you lose. But I seen Favre carry us through bad O-lines with his quick slants and acrobatic dump offs. And I seen him carry the offense when the running game sucked. We had a bad O-line and no run game. Why not hand the ball off through the air, after the RB gets through the line? Not a dump off, a designed play. Quick. It would take pressure off the line and get the RBs involved again. Our WRs were so good, and so deep, we could stretch the field as well........SOON AFTER we had the 15-1 year. Unstopable pass attack, opened up no name Starks with big runs in open field. Wasnt until playoffs that our defense and lack of any run failed us... Since then we drafted RBs that can catch to cater to the idea. We filled in the gaps with a bigger O-line and invested in real RB tallent. It was a sublte change in personel on offense. While we invested heavily on defense. Giving Capers some healthy talent for first time since he's been here... In those few year the league has become a passing league. Throw the record book out the window. Everything has changed..... Now the pass opens up the run... I mean who runs first now days anymore? Or what relivant teams runs first I should say???</p><p></p><p>Im not trying to pat myself on the back. Just pointing out that I am great and they should put me on the payroll. Thats all. lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenBaySlacker, post: 582271, member: 9780"] :)I am new here. Spent years on Yahoo boards til they shut down. ESPN boards for years too. This is my new spot. I've never gotten credit for my outside the box thinking. Which has been admitedly ignorant, and uninformed at times:). But I also called for things years before they actually happened. And as said before, NOBODY ever said good job. For instance......lol I debated we should impliment a 5-2-4 defense. Inspired by the apparent 6-4 of the 85 bears. And the tallent and weaknesses on our roster. We had KGB and Kampman who were the ends. And IMO were fast and agile enough to drop back into coverage if the offense dictated... Jenkins was still a DT, and Packers brass had not taken my advice to make him a DE yet...Then we had Williams, and Jolly. In the middle I wanted Grady Jackson. I figured it would stomp the run, and pressure the passer so much as to create mistakes. Barnett and young Hawk were sideline to sideline. Woodson/Harris, or was it McKenzie at the time? Along with Sharper and young Collins, I believed the secondary could antisipate the dump offs, and basicly smother the offense completely..... OH MAN DID I TAKE CHIT! for months i fought it out!!! Not long after Capers came in and we changed to a 3-4. Which was my first education on what a 3-4 even was. As it turned out everyone LOVED the 3-4 defense and Capers was a defensive mastermind (early general perception). Well guess what?????? A 5-2 defense is a 3-4 defense!!! Just calling pass rushing OLBs a defensive end. Aldon Smith a DE or OLB. He's called a OLB but in my book that big **** is a DE......... Months of ridicule! And I still believe a good 3-4 depends completely on getting the pressure of 4 guys with 3 elite D-linemen.... Picking up the slack with LBs is pointless if you have LBs against bigger blockers! The advantage of 4 LBs is that you can strike from 4 different gaps when blitzing. The other most important thing is a great secondary. If your secondary sucks, you cant play a 3-4 without the whole scheme losing its advantages... I debated that our pass attack was so good. And our run game was soooooooo bad (at the time). Why dont we use the pass to open up the run? OH THE STUFF I WAS CALLED!!! lol Historically if you abandon the run, you lose. But I seen Favre carry us through bad O-lines with his quick slants and acrobatic dump offs. And I seen him carry the offense when the running game sucked. We had a bad O-line and no run game. Why not hand the ball off through the air, after the RB gets through the line? Not a dump off, a designed play. Quick. It would take pressure off the line and get the RBs involved again. Our WRs were so good, and so deep, we could stretch the field as well........SOON AFTER we had the 15-1 year. Unstopable pass attack, opened up no name Starks with big runs in open field. Wasnt until playoffs that our defense and lack of any run failed us... Since then we drafted RBs that can catch to cater to the idea. We filled in the gaps with a bigger O-line and invested in real RB tallent. It was a sublte change in personel on offense. While we invested heavily on defense. Giving Capers some healthy talent for first time since he's been here... In those few year the league has become a passing league. Throw the record book out the window. Everything has changed..... Now the pass opens up the run... I mean who runs first now days anymore? Or what relivant teams runs first I should say??? Im not trying to pat myself on the back. Just pointing out that I am great and they should put me on the payroll. Thats all. lol [/QUOTE]
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