I don't participate in chat during the game, but I sometimes read along. It's downright silly that some fools in there - and in the forum in general - are blaming Capers. In fairness, there were, of course, a few voices of reason in chat saying it ain't the scheme or the coach, it's the players.
NOBODY in all of the NFL makes adjustments and compensates for personnel weaknesses like Capers. Sometimes, though, you just can't stop everything. Why are we weak against the run? Because we have to do too much to cover the pass - DUH! Why do we give up big plays sometimes? Because we are loading up the box to stop the run - certain times against some teams. Look at the Bears game - a LOT of 3 and outs - success, along with occasional gashes where doing what we NEEDED to do because of weak personnel didn't quite work.
A large part of the anti-Capers crap derived from what Kaepernick and the Niners did to us - twice. The season opener, Capers got even more creative than usual - with the whole off-season to plan, and he did manage to stop the runs that Kaepernick killed us with in last year's playoffs. Unfortunately, the compensation left too much reliance on single coverage, and we got burned. I'm really anxious to see what our defensive genius - NO SARCASM - puts together this time - his third crack at the Niners. Maybe he will shut up you fools who want him fired once and for all.
One more thing, it's been said, blame Capers for poor individual performance and fundamentals of the D players - "coaches should be teachers". Maybe, but the same people saying that tend to push guys like Greene as a replacement for Capers. Hell no to that! It is the position coaches like Greene that should be doing the teaching. If our tackling or coverage is sloppy, blame the position coaches, and the coordinator only indirectly for not replacing the position coaches.
Ultimately, though, as I've said over and over, the blame for faulty D falls on you know who - the damn GM who has put the team together.
I will now sit back in listen to a bunch of fools and whiners say otherwise.
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