Whatever scheme we need somebody better than Capers to call it. Other teams have injuries on defense and don't have consistently embarrassing performances like this team does. Dom does absolutely shit to cover for weaknesses. He just lets them get exposed over and over again while sticking to the plan regardless of how the game is working out.
Originally Posted by: steveishere
I completely disagree. Other teams have their top 5 CBs injured? ... Rollins and Gunter are on the field but they're clearly limping early in games... they're not healthy.
Dom has made a lot of change attempts... but for every defense change, there is an offense change and depending on the other teams weapons... you need to adjust and Capers has.
The Packers normally play man to man with a single deep safety. When Shields got injured, he tried to continue that... but no one could step up to fill the #1 CB role... so Capers adjusted the Safeties to help... and the Packers found GREAT success with Gunter when they played cover 2 defense with two Safeties over the top.
The problem with cover 2 defenses, is that Safeties are much further back and can't help nearly as quickly against the run or with people in the short middle (especially if the team has a talented RB or TE)... and you notice... the Packers have struggled against teams with good RBs and TEs. And Capers has tried to be creative... against the Cowboys, he tried to get all the OLBers on the field at once with Matthews, Perry, Perry, etc.
Against the Redskins, the Packers were mostly playing a simple conservative scheme most of the game... and the CBs consistently failed to execute ... losing the WR or TE with juke moves at the line... consistently beating the CBs to the inside, over and over again. How hard it to realize, you need to stop letting you man take the inside? Al Harris made a career out of forcing guys to the outside. I don't know how any play caller, can fix that... other than tell the player to move to the inside and off of the man... but that then gives a clear shot to the outside and the CBs is playing catch up.
But anyways, Capers should of stuck with the conservative scheme... but he finally got tired of seeing the same plan fail... so he got more aggressive and what happen?... instead of simply getting burned to the inside... the CBs got completely burned deep... because the Safeties were no longer deep.
When the players can't execute, there is only so much a play caller can do.
I'm not saying Capers hasn't failed in other ways... like maybe coaching up his coaches or coaching up the players... but his play calling hasn't been bad... it's the lack of execution by the players on the field. If they're not executing, any play you call is going to look bad... and you're just picking the best of the bad... which is still ugly.