I agree 100% and this is really the root of my problem with Baker. He treats this secondary with kid gloves by calling soft zone after soft zone when he blitzes. What really infuriates me isn't just that he calls zone. It's that the super soft zone we were playing behind our attacking front 7 was so passive that if Cunningham could get the snap and get a throw off it was a guaranteed 1st down and more.
@Coach Macho was talking about this. He can explain it better but we were playing this soft zone with outside leverage and where giving the WRs a free release. Consequently any time a WR ran an in breaking route there was absolutely no one there, just wide open green grass for 1st down after 1st down. It's as though Baker was willing to concede first downs in these situations in exchange for the security of knowing that they weren't giving up a score on the play lol. That is coaching scared!
I can understand wanting to protect the secondary to a point but this is just way over the top. Our CBs may not be AA level but when our front 7 is putting the type of pressure on QBs that we are putting on them you have to give your CBs the ability to make plays. Baker still has the training wheels on.