flyerhawk
Well-Known Member
It's tough to figure out exactly what is wrong with the secondary. Injuries? Partially. Scheme? Yes, that's a large part of the problem in my opinion. Coaches? Sure, to an extent. They aren't teaching these DB's what they are doing wrong. They aren't getting the problem fixed.
But.....at least a portion of the secondary's troubles can be explained by who they've had to face.
So having those 4 QB's put up big numbers isn't unique to just the Seahawk's defense. They pretty much torch most teams that they play.
- Matt Ryan: 4th in YPG, and 1st in total yards, Former MVP
- Josh Allen: 7th in YPG, and 3rd in total yards
- Kyler Murray: Only 13th in YPG, but he's also 8th in rushing yards per game (including RBs!!). So he's a bonafide dual threat to any defense.
- Dak Prescott: Was 1st in YPG and total yards before his injury. He was killing it before he was injured.
But then it's tough to explain why our defense still played so shitty against these four (five really) QB's
Who can figure it out? Not me. I just think we've played at least half our games against some top tier QB's so that can partially explain the high number of passing yards we give up. But that's just an excuse really. This team just needs to play better. I guess the good news is that we are ranked dead last as a defense so the only way we can go is up.
- Kirk Cousins: decent middle tier guy who plays hot and cold.
- Cam Newton: Former MVP that was playing much better when the season began and we played him. But he's really just not that good now.
- Garopollo: We actually did a good job on him. It's the defenses lone victory against a QB this season.
- Mullens: and then in the same game where we did good, we totally collapsed when Mullens came in and he lit us up for a huge stat line in just one quarter of football.
- Fitzmagic: He's a decent QB who also plays extremely hot and cold. He was having a nice year before Tua was given the team. But we still shouldn't have allowed him 315 yards passing.
Allen threw the ball for 38 times, ran the ball 7 times, and was sacked 7 times. The pressure wasn't terrible on Sunday per se. But it could be that the blitzing is leaving too many gaps in the defense to be exploited. Which is troubling because Josh Allen isn't known for being able to read defenses.