Webb at slot corner is unnecessary and hurts us, if you want 2 safeties plus a moneybacker then Webb and Jefferson can take turns, Webb can be absolutely brilliant on db blitzes and sniffing out screens and is still a good safety, and Jefferson is best suited for box plays and also blitzes well, but Webb as a full time slot corner is just creating a liability on your defense and I don't get it, with canady and hill back, we need them to play the slot.
Peanut has had a knack for making plays but also has a knack for missing them, bowser needs to be rotated with him and really bowser needs a starters snap count, he is the kinda guy you send to do every task possible because he's a versatile athletic freak and the fact that he's getting no snaps helps explain why you feel unsure of the defense, you feel unsure because it's fucking stupidly managed.
Stop letting ZDS pass rush in such heavy doses, he can't stay on his fucking feet and never could, give those snaps to tim Williams and stop forcing him to set the edge ffs
i think the coaching staff might have finally realised it too - after the first couple of drives i noticed maurice canady out there a lot more often than webby (although canady did still get beat a couple of times) and i really like the idea of canady/webby in the dime given their versatility with webb now being a safety who can dabble at slot and maurice being a corner with safety-like attributes
peanut's been ok but my rationale is that if peanut's on the field we might as well go to dime and replace him with levine because while he's aggressive he's not a physical run stuffer and levine is better in coverage - levine has been incredible this year and any excuse to get us into dime before 3rd down sounds like a good idea to me given how successful that coverage has been
i could understand ZDS being in on 3rd downs and pass rushing if there was some thought that they could run and he was on the edge but so often he's lined up in the middle which means he's not really there to run stuff anyway and is just there to rush up the middle - he does get penetration but penetration is only good if you can actually pressure the qb which he doesnt because he can be sidestepped so easily or he just falls over as soon as he has to change direction - id like to see timmy get fewer snaps on 1st down unless a team is obviously gonna have to pass and stop bringing him off the field on 3rd down (this is the one that kills me when they put him on the field on 1st and 2nd down and we get the opposing offence into 3rd and medium/long and then timmy is taken off the field which makes no sense to me) - here are the snap counts of importance: ZDS: 34; timmy: 14; bowser: 4...
the bowser snap count kills me because i noticed him on defence once and i thought he'd just disappeared but no he literally wasnt on the field at all really - on that one snap i noticed he had a great stunt in behind willie henry's bull rush that collapsed the pocket on all sides around savage and forced him to make an errant throw - this was early enough in the game that i would have expected more snaps for tyus but nope... he only had 3 other snaps on defence