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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: NFL Sob (or Brag) Thread (1/11/2010 9:12:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
Kurt Warner carved you up like a practice squad. Its hard to believe GB's defense was so highly rated.
We've got 2 starting defensive backs, plus our top backup DB, out for the season. And last year's top pass rusher, Aaron Kampman. We were actually signing free agent DBs off the street halfway through the season. The #6 guy on the depth chart is starting, and I counted at least 3 touchdowns scored on him yesterday. Maybe more; I just couldn't keep track. Offenses have been trying to exploit that vulnerability all season, but only the Vikings and the Steelers have done it with any degree of success. And neither of them came close to what Arizona accomplished. What the Cards did yesterday was not only expose that mismatch, but drive a freakin' truck through it.
Dom Capers has done an extraordinary job of using schemes to mask the weaknesses in our pass defense, but that's only going to get you so far against a Favre, a Warner, or a Roethlisberger. Guys like that are going to find the mismatches and exploit them, especially when they've got a halfways-decent offensive coordinator to give them some plays to work with. There's only so much Capers can do with schemes - at some point, you have to have the personnel, and with 3 DBs out on the IR, not to mention only one decent pass rusher, we simply don't. I give Capers tons of credit for building such a terrific defense around such a glaring weakness, but it was doomed to come to an end the minute we ran into a playoff team with the personnel to exploit the mismatches.
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