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Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN
It doesn't matter if Sutton is the greatest DC ever, he still has to go. You need to get rid of everyone and start over. You can't allow a guy to keep his job when you have a defense this crappy. Any other place Sutton would have been fired after the Colts playoff meltdown but not here.
Someone keeps playing Murray, Parker, Ragland etc Even Sorenson shouldn't get a pass he wasn't that great to begin with but we keep throwing these guys back out there expecting a different result. Insanity is the word, time to start over on D.
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I'd be curious to see the snap counts but I saw way too much of Ragland for my tastes in this game, especially early. And man, Hitchens is still just awful. Again - that's not a 'complicated scheme' thing either - he was in straight up man on a plodding TE and he just got juked out of his shoes. There was nothing complicated there - just awful execution.
Parker and Murray both missed several tackles to boot.
But yeah, we're reaching nut-cutting time here with Sutton if he just keeps sending those guys out there. It's not because of scheme but rather because of misplaced loyalty and lack of killer instinct.
Because let's be fair - the defense bailed a scattershot offense out in that 1st half. Before that last second TD drive, the best you could say about the offense was that it was finding its way. But for the most part, in that first half the offense just looked bad. The defense stood tall several times and made plays.
But in that 2nd half - the 4th quarter in particular - they just stopped playing. They just lost any kind of aggression. I get it, Sutton was playing a prevent, but even a prevent is designed to slow them down; trade points for clock. We weren't even getting a milked clock as part of the prevent package. And while I think that's largely because the safeties just couldn't cover anyone, it's time for Sutton to get Lucas out there and see what else we have to work with.
We can't just keep losing matchups with Ron Parker on the field and say "well Ron Parker just sucks". Yeah, he does, and for awhile I gave Sutton the benefit of having little else to work with. But I think now he needs to wear the horns for not being willing to take Parker off the field. Or use different packages that keep Raglands slow ass out of there. Or...well shit, I can't blame him for that Hitchens play. Lord Hitchens, that was bad man.