I come across as a Pees defender because I think he gets too much flack. Reality is, he's alright. He ain't perfect. He has his moments of utter brilliance but occasionaly does something stupid. I don't think he's the main problem on defense, players aren't executing and it's not something that Pees is at fault for. Weddle and Jefferson are taking bad angles in the run game. Pees can't do anything about that. That's a big reason this unit has been struggling. The dude we paid a lot of money for this offseason to be a good run defender, which he was in Arizona btw, is sucking right now. So is Weddle. It's out of character for both.
If we fired him tomorrow though I'd understand why. But he'd likely get a job elsewhere at some point, mostly as a positional coach. I've never claimed him as a genius(some will try to say I have). But ultimately I do think we need an upgrade at some point. He's not as horrible as one particular poster suggests, but he's not the genius others claim he is.
He definitely has his moments where he game-plans and calls a magnificent game, but I don't think he's a guru of the defense and I don't think you can put a lot on Pees for his lack of execution on the players part. Like I said, I will take the players word for it when they say he's a good coach but I'm looking at from this perspective, we added Jefferson and Carr, went for a defense heavy draft and yet this defense has gotten considerably worse then last year. Honestly, I felt like he did a really good job last year. I think he was able to mask some of the decencies we had last year.
Our #1 CB was Jimmy Smith who while he was great, wasn't truly 100%. After that we had Sherrece Wright(He was terrible), Webb as our FS, and Doom who was at 60%. I think he did a really good job but when Jimmy went down, we saw what happened to our defense and to me that's an issue that I have with the DC. I think he did a good job at his game-plans and schemes but when one guys like that goes down, it was a big part of our season ending the way it did.
I agree, Jefferson and Weddle have been massive disappointments and I do not know why, to me it looks like severe mis-communication and the fact that neither know what gaps to attack nor do they know how to take angles and tackle. They both look like rookies out there. You just can't blame Pees for that but I don't think he's a transcendent DC. I don't think he's going to produce a all-time great defense and I think it's time to end this chapter, it just seems like things are not working out for both sides and that's fine, you just need to move on and find someone who works.