I guess you're more forgiving of D than I am.
I'm not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt at this point.
My point is that regardless of scheme, people will complain.
Before it was too much man. Then too much zone. Now it's the TYPE of zone.
When's the last time the majority of the fan base liked the scheme?
Give me some werewolves and cyclopses and cyborgs running on diesel fuel, and I'm good.
In general people don't even understand the scheme. Shannon morphed from straight 2 deep man to a matchup zone system (2005) with a couple years of heavy cover 3/cover 1 (2003/2006, 2004 before it fell apart) and all the while people complained about it like it was the same defense. People will never like the "scheme" unless they like the results. And even then they'll complain in the rare games when it doesn't work. It's easy to criticize when you don't have to fix it.
The scheme is really not that important. If it was, everybody would run the same thing. The difference between the best coordinators and the inferior ones is talent and the ability to execute the scheme, whatever it is. That's pretty much it. No DC runs an inferior system or he wouldn't run it, and nobody runs a superior system or everybody would follow suit.
That's probably the worst post I've ever read from you.
First of all, Cover 3 was
never "heavy" under Shannon except when Bill Young was here. Even when we had Sean Taylor, as the ultimate centerfielder, it wasn't "heavy" here. I have no idea what you're even calling Cover 3.
People
will like the scheme if they believe that, at least in theory, it's the best choice for placing our athletes in the best possible position. Some prefer a simple approach. Some prefer a more complex scheme. And, on and on. Your generalization is horrific here. I don't even know what "it's easy to criticize when you don't have to fix it" means. It's a message board. It's being discussed.
As for your "scheme is really not that important...if it was, everybody would run the same thing," that makes no sense. It's almost strangely illogical. The fact that so many guys run something different and add wrinkles/variations to completely different philosophies is a clear sign that scheme and philosophy are BOTH (because they're distinct) important. You're basically saying their irrelevant.
Finally, your "no DC runs an inferior system or he wouldn't run it" is just beyond comprehension coming from someone who's spent 10 years discussing football on message boards. Are you saying there is no such thing as a poor fit in terms of a system and that anyone can throw any system out there so long as the players are good and they can get them to execute it? So, a team wish a smallish front (say, VTech) would get the same result in 3-4 system (say, Stanford's)? Weird stuff.
