Pettine satisfied with our effort
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well, between last year, and this year, I can say it is NOT HIS FAULT.
The Browns would fare far better if they fired Oneil today, and went
with a base 4-3, and had Kruger as a DE.
This defense does not work. Kruger is not a guy that should be dropping back in
coverage all that often. I mean, seriously. I don't give a damn what Pettine's defense
says on paper.
The Browns would fare far better if they fired Oneil today, and went
with a base 4-3, and had Kruger as a DE.
Kruger is not a guy that should be dropping back in coverage all that often.
Kruger was a shit DE too.....does ANYONE realize he wasnt even a starter before we signed him?....4 years as a backup, then the Browns sign him up as the forth highest paid LB in the league and he WASNT EVEN A STARTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if I hear ONE MORE TIME about this coverage shit Im gonna lose my mind....if he cant cover then he shouldnt be playing...
Oh wait....he's not anymore......He's now gone from 70 snaps a game to 24.....whats that tell ya?
Pettines & Oneills LB's in Buffalo learned the system and led the league in sacks......so why cant Kruger learn to do that?
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because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
there, that should fix your wagon, Mud......
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and, in 2013, one of the top sackmeisters in the NFL...
was...
4. Mario Williams, who looked excellent last night when his Buffalo Bills took on the New York Giants, racked-up 13.0 sacks for 78 sack yards in 2013.
Read more at http://sportschatplace.com/nfl-picks/2014/08/04/top-ten-sack-leaders-of-the-2013-nfl-season#SX78FCc3W80PGH2e.99and Mud, check this out about what Mario Williams (and Kruger is no Mario Williams)....
says about "still learning" the complex defense in Buffalo.
Their sacks plummetted via the complicated clusterfook.
It's been nearly two months since Mario Williams sounded off on his frustration with Rex Ryan's defense.
Two months later, he says nothing has changed.
"We're still doing the same thing," Williams told Vic Carucci of The Buffalo News this week, ahead of Sunday's critical showdown with the surging Texans.
The core complaint from Williams centers around a scheme that asks its pass rushers to frequently drop into coverage, leaving less opportunity to wreck the quarterback. He has a point after watching the Bills drop from a franchise-record 57 sacks in 2013 -- and a league-leading 54 last season -- to just 13 all year by their defensive linemen in 2015.
That's less than the 13.5 piled up alone by Texans behemoth J.J. Watt.
Williams admitted that he's still catching up to Ryan's complex playbook.
"It makes us switch up certain things that we do," Williams said Friday. "Now, we might have to do this, we might have to go that way and might not be in the same, as comfortable a position as we've been in previous years. But other than that, I don't think it makes it difficult. It's just a different look. It's a different feel for us."
Williams and his fellow high-priced sack artists -- Kyle Williams, Marcell Dareus and Jerry Hughes -- are earning about $50 million this season. None of them have more than three sacks on the year, though, after Mario had 14.5 sacks and Hughes had 10 in 2014.
Mario isn't the only Bills defender to express his displeasure with a defense that ranks 18th overall and 29th in takedowns. We're fed a weekly diet of hype over Ryan's "exotic" blitz packages, but "invisible" would serve as a better term during this up-and-down season.
The problems on defense only amplify questions about where Mario will play next year. The Bills can save $12.9 million against the cap by releasing him in the offseason -- a change of scenery he might be fine with.
Sounds pretty familiar, yes? I think it's true, Mud. When a defensive scheme is drawn up so complicated,
but realistically doesn't work on the field, it IS A CLUSTERFOOK.
And what happens every time you draft a defensive player? Wait a few years until maybe he doesn't have "miscommunications" anymore?
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So, Mario Williams and the defensive players are po'd and frustrated with their system that is so
convoluted and complex, that they are frustrated, and the defense is NOT WORKING.
and they might go elsewhere where an intelligent, simpler defense is the norm.
Extremely complex is not equal to "efficient".
I stand by what I said. The Browns are suffering the same frustration as the Buffalo Bills players are.
and the results are very similar. I rest my case, your honor.
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because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
there, that should fix your wagon, Mud......
because Kruger doesn't have the quickness laterally to
cover. He should be asked to drop back into coverage often.
Exactly what Im saying.....he isnt good enough.....and thats supposed to be Pettines fault???......Ok, if you say so......
Just remember.....Kruger had his best season EVER under Pettine and Oneill....
Their sacks plummetted via the complicated clusterfook. after Pettine left.....
FIFY....
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Just remember.....Kruger had his best season EVER under Pettine and Oneill.... Mud
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so what happened then? Last year, they didn't have the entire defense installed. It's that
complicated. This year, they probably have installed the entire clusterfook.
and the same thing has happened as the same in Buffalo. Too much. Pettine/Oneils'
defense has reached it's level of incompetence. It isn't the players. Mario Williams is still
in Buffalo, and look at the difference in sacks from 2013 and this year. Same player(s).
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I disagree 100%....Ive watched and rewatched every Kruger play....he is doing NOTHING different this year then he did last year...
Same # and % of snaps rushing AND covering.....he's just making excuses cause he sucks.....THATS why he is on the bench...
So....instead of pretending like theres something there, why not show me what he's doing differently?.....show me how losing one on one battles EVERY week is the coaches fault......show me how Oneill prevented him from getting a sack on 300 rushes.....or how the system caused him to get blocked out of every running play....???
Its still football Cal....you know, get the man with the ball.....and he's not getting it done.....
I think he got sacks last year because our DB's bought him time....and teams blocked Sheard, instead of him....I say that because I went back and watched his 11 sacks again....and he earned 3 on his own......
Go back and watch last weeks game....our lines(both of em) are getting mauled nd pushed around.....that is muscle and effort, not scheme.....CB's are supposed to play man, but they are getting beat one on one....again, thats players not scheme....
The scheme isnt that hard....but it DOES require talent.....which, right now, is severely lacking....
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"I disagree 100%....Ive watched and rewatched every Kruger play....he is doing NOTHING different this year then he did last year..."
I think if our players had the JJ Watt mentality then their performances would be way better. Yes, he is physically gifted but his mentality to play hard in losing situations is admirable.
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Starters Kruger and Mingo have combined for 9 tackles in the last 6 games...(embarrassing)
But BACK UPS Armonty and Orchard have 25 tackles in the same 6 games, but with less time and snaps.....
How is that possible if it's the coach????........because its not the coach.....it's just Kruger and Mingo sucking, while the 2 new guys are PLAYING.....
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Well, obviously, Orchard and Armonty are ignoring Pettine's stupid complex defense,
and they have the speed and power at the same time to just play football.
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Well, obviously, Orchard and Armonty are ignoring Pettine's stupid complex defense,
and they have the speed and power at the same time to just play football.
Well, obviously, Orchard and Armonty are ignoring Pettine's stupid complex defense,
and they have the speed and power at the same time to just play football.
whatever cal.....I know you dont like facts....even when they hit you in the face.....
And when they do hit you in the face, not even man enough to step up and say it.......at least when Im wrong I admit it
Ive backed up every argument Ive made on this stuff with stats and facts....and you, and no one else, have backed theirs at all...so....whatever.....
If you say it enough times, it might actually come true....
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Kruger...
To my eye he's doing what he did last year, namely bulling the RT back to the vicinity of the QB, with about the same regularity as he did last year. What I think is lacking is associated pressure from others to either flush the QB Krug's way or make the QB step up. Either allows Krug's to simply disengage for the sack.
Players who might not be giving 100%...
- Bowe
- Gilbert
- Anyone on IR
- Anyone in Concussion protocol
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Kruger...
To my eye he's doing what he did last year, namely bulling the RT back to the vicinity of the QB, with about the same regularity as he did last year. What I think is lacking is associated pressure from others to either flush the QB Krug's way or make the QB step up. Either allows Krug's to simply disengage for the sack.
Players who might not be giving 100%...
- Bowe
- Gilbert
- Anyone on IR
- Anyone in Concussion protocol
Kruger...
To my eye he's doing what he did last year, namely bulling the RT back to the vicinity of the QB, with about the same regularity as he did last year. What I think is lacking is associated pressure from others to either flush the QB Krug's way or make the QB step up. Either allows Krug's to simply disengage for the sack.
My take too...plus he had a lot of help(last year) from our DBs....and Sheard....which I have posted here several times now....
And you know whats REALLY funny???.....the Browns(today) posted a break down of Krugers sack from Sunday....
And you know what they said?......he got the sack because...
#1) there was strong coverage from the DB's, forcing Dalton to hold the ball......and....
#2) there was pressure from Mingo, which forced Dalton over to Kruger......
Typical Kruger sack.....(off the backs of others)
Here is the link from Browns.com for anyone interested.....just another example of what should be so obvious, yet apparently still isnt....
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Im sorry to keep going....but I REALLY feel a need to put this Kruger garbage to rest.....the whole "covering" thing you all keep screaming about.....
here are Krugers rush vs cover snaps for the last 4 years.....lets see "who" made him cover the most and "who" gave him the most opportunities to rush the QB....shall we?
2012 - Baltimore.............380 rush 97 cover
2013 - Clev (Horton).......440 rush 110 cover
Now the Pettine era....(you know....the guy who makes him cover so much that he cant rush)....
2014 - Cleve(Oneill).......480 rush 65 cover......so the MOST rushes and FEWEST covers yet(and Krugers best year ever, btw)
2015 - Cleve(Oneill).......281 rush 56 cover......so the fewest covers of all the years, even though this is the year that we are making him cover all the time.....
And...before you say it.....he WAS on track for more rushes up until week 6, which is when his snaps got cut drastically and many of his rush snaps were given to Armonty.....so, he has less rushes because he was awful and the coaches saw that and adjusted.....
This is fact guys.....not opinion....SO PLEASE STOP SAYING HE IS ALWAYS COVERING WHEN HE'S NOT!!!!!!
HE IS COVERING LESS THAN HE EVER HAS AND LESS THAN ANY OTHER DC HAS MADE HIM.....
Last year...w/o Kruger.....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
THIS year...w/o Kruger....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
So the difference between last season and this season?.......Kruger......
Last year...Kruger got 1 sack every 44 attempts
This year...Kruger gets 1 sack every 112 attempts...
So...PLEASE....JUST STOP.....its not Oneill "misusing" him....and it's NOT because he is covering....IT JUST NOT....
Damn.....
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Im sorry to keep going....but I REALLY feel a need to put this Kruger garbage to rest.....the whole "covering" thing you all keep screaming about.....
here are Krugers rush vs cover snaps for the last 4 years.....lets see "who" made him cover the most and "who" gave him the most opportunities to rush the QB....shall we?
2012 - Baltimore.............380 rush 97 cover
2013 - Clev (Horton).......440 rush 110 cover
Now the Pettine era....(you know....the guy who makes him cover so much that he cant rush)....
2014 - Cleve(Oneill).......480 rush 65 cover......so the MOST rushes and FEWEST covers yet(and Krugers best year ever, btw)
2015 - Cleve(Oneill).......281 rush 56 cover......so the fewest covers of all the years, even though this is the year that we are making him cover all the time.....
And...before you say it.....he WAS on track for more rushes up until week 6, which is when his snaps got cut drastically and many of his rush snaps were given to Armonty.....so, he has less rushes because he was awful and the coaches saw that and adjusted.....
This is fact guys.....not opinion....SO PLEASE STOP SAYING HE IS ALWAYS COVERING WHEN HE'S NOT!!!!!!
HE IS COVERING LESS THAN HE EVER HAS AND LESS THAN ANY OTHER DC HAS MADE HIM.....
Last year...w/o Kruger.....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
THIS year...w/o Kruger....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
So the difference between last season and this season?.......Kruger......
Last year...Kruger got 1 sack every 44 attempts
This year...Kruger gets 1 sack every 112 attempts...
So...PLEASE....JUST STOP.....its not Oneill "misusing" him....and it's NOT because he is covering....IT JUST NOT....
Damn.....
Im sorry to keep going....but I REALLY feel a need to put this Kruger garbage to rest.....the whole "covering" thing you all keep screaming about.....
here are Krugers rush vs cover snaps for the last 4 years.....lets see "who" made him cover the most and "who" gave him the most opportunities to rush the QB....shall we?
2012 - Baltimore.............380 rush 97 cover
2013 - Clev (Horton).......440 rush 110 cover
Now the Pettine era....(you know....the guy who makes him cover so much that he cant rush)....
2014 - Cleve(Oneill).......480 rush 65 cover......so the MOST rushes and FEWEST covers yet(and Krugers best year ever, btw)
2015 - Cleve(Oneill).......281 rush 56 cover......so the fewest covers of all the years, even though this is the year that we are making him cover all the time.....
And...before you say it.....he WAS on track for more rushes up until week 6, which is when his snaps got cut drastically and many of his rush snaps were given to Armonty.....so, he has less rushes because he was awful and the coaches saw that and adjusted.....
This is fact guys.....not opinion....SO PLEASE STOP SAYING HE IS ALWAYS COVERING WHEN HE'S NOT!!!!!!
HE IS COVERING LESS THAN HE EVER HAS AND LESS THAN ANY OTHER DC HAS MADE HIM.....
Last year...w/o Kruger.....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
THIS year...w/o Kruger....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
So the difference between last season and this season?.......Kruger......
Last year...Kruger got 1 sack every 44 attempts
This year...Kruger gets 1 sack every 112 attempts...
So...PLEASE....JUST STOP.....its not Oneill "misusing" him....and it's NOT because he is covering....IT JUST NOT....
Damn.....
If O'Neil would just learn how to use Kruger and stop misusing him, Kruger would be better.
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Saying "some" guys arent trying their hardest makes sense....
Saying "because" some guys arent trying their hardest means they've lost the team....doesnt.....
We're just going to agree to disagree but I see it on the field and read between the lines of what a good amount of players are saying. I just don't see how someone doesn't correlate a teams effort being because in large part the coach doesn't have the locker room. I know the browns suck but Sunday's game was pathetic. It was not (IMO) guys trying hard but just being bad-it was guys half-assing it and going through the motions. There's a clear difference between the two in my book.
It'll come out in the wash sooner than later but I just don't see it the other way around. It's really hard for me to look at guys like the Williams x2, Whitner, Starks and Haden before he got hurt amongst other dudes and think they've regressed that badly, it just doesn't make sense.
We're just going to agree to disagree but I see it on the field and read between the lines of what a good amount of players are saying. I just don't see how someone doesn't correlate a teams effort being because in large part the coach doesn't have the locker room. I know the browns suck but Sunday's game was pathetic. It was not (IMO) guys trying hard but just being bad-it was guys half-assing it and going through the motions. There's a clear difference between the two in my book.
It'll come out in the wash sooner than later but I just don't see it the other way around. It's really hard for me to look at guys like the Williams x2, Whitner, Starks and Haden before he got hurt amongst other dudes and think they've regressed that badly, it just doesn't make sense.
Randy Moss didn't play hard all game long and he's a first ballot Hall of Fame.
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Im sorry to keep going....but I REALLY feel a need to put this Kruger garbage to rest.....the whole "covering" thing you all keep screaming about.....
here are Krugers rush vs cover snaps for the last 4 years.....lets see "who" made him cover the most and "who" gave him the most opportunities to rush the QB....shall we?
2012 - Baltimore.............380 rush 97 cover
2013 - Clev (Horton).......440 rush 110 cover
Now the Pettine era....(you know....the guy who makes him cover so much that he cant rush)....
2014 - Cleve(Oneill).......480 rush 65 cover......so the MOST rushes and FEWEST covers yet(and Krugers best year ever, btw)
2015 - Cleve(Oneill).......281 rush 56 cover......so the fewest covers of all the years, even though this is the year that we are making him cover all the time.....
And...before you say it.....he WAS on track for more rushes up until week 6, which is when his snaps got cut drastically and many of his rush snaps were given to Armonty.....so, he has less rushes because he was awful and the coaches saw that and adjusted.....
This is fact guys.....not opinion....SO PLEASE STOP SAYING HE IS ALWAYS COVERING WHEN HE'S NOT!!!!!!
HE IS COVERING LESS THAN HE EVER HAS AND LESS THAN ANY OTHER DC HAS MADE HIM.....
Last year...w/o Kruger.....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
THIS year...w/o Kruger....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
So the difference between last season and this season?.......Kruger......
Last year...Kruger got 1 sack every 44 attempts
This year...Kruger gets 1 sack every 112 attempts...
So...PLEASE....JUST STOP.....its not Oneill "misusing" him....and it's NOT because he is covering....IT JUST NOT....
Damn.....
Im sorry to keep going....but I REALLY feel a need to put this Kruger garbage to rest.....the whole "covering" thing you all keep screaming about.....
here are Krugers rush vs cover snaps for the last 4 years.....lets see "who" made him cover the most and "who" gave him the most opportunities to rush the QB....shall we?
2012 - Baltimore.............380 rush 97 cover
2013 - Clev (Horton).......440 rush 110 cover
Now the Pettine era....(you know....the guy who makes him cover so much that he cant rush)....
2014 - Cleve(Oneill).......480 rush 65 cover......so the MOST rushes and FEWEST covers yet(and Krugers best year ever, btw)
2015 - Cleve(Oneill).......281 rush 56 cover......so the fewest covers of all the years, even though this is the year that we are making him cover all the time.....
And...before you say it.....he WAS on track for more rushes up until week 6, which is when his snaps got cut drastically and many of his rush snaps were given to Armonty.....so, he has less rushes because he was awful and the coaches saw that and adjusted.....
This is fact guys.....not opinion....SO PLEASE STOP SAYING HE IS ALWAYS COVERING WHEN HE'S NOT!!!!!!
HE IS COVERING LESS THAN HE EVER HAS AND LESS THAN ANY OTHER DC HAS MADE HIM.....
Last year...w/o Kruger.....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
THIS year...w/o Kruger....The browns averaged 1.2 sacks a game...
So the difference between last season and this season?.......Kruger......
Last year...Kruger got 1 sack every 44 attempts
This year...Kruger gets 1 sack every 112 attempts...
So...PLEASE....JUST STOP.....its not Oneill "misusing" him....and it's NOT because he is covering....IT JUST NOT....
Damn.....
Kruger is just another fine example of the Browns overpaying for lesser talent to sign a name brand in free agency.
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Top 3 freeloaders on the roster:
1) Bowe - robbery minus the gun
2) Gilbert - head case
3) Kruger - overpaid crybaby
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We're just going to agree to disagree but I see it on the field and read between the lines of what a good amount of players are saying. I just don't see how someone doesn't correlate a teams effort being because in large part the coach doesn't have the locker room. I know the browns suck but Sunday's game was pathetic. It was not (IMO) guys trying hard but just being bad-it was guys half-assing it and going through the motions. There's a clear difference between the two in my book.
It'll come out in the wash sooner than later but I just don't see it the other way around. It's really hard for me to look at guys like the Williams x2, Whitner, Starks and Haden before he got hurt amongst other dudes and think they've regressed that badly, it just doesn't make sense.
Randy Moss didn't play hard all game long and he's a first ballot Hall of Fame.
Randy Moss didn't play hard all game long and he's a first ballot Hall of Fame.
So your defense of Pettine is that we don't have 22 Randy Moss' running around?
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right now, opponent wr's are getting open with injuries, and just like the Buffalo players were saying,
although Mud thinks he knows better than them... (okay, that's just a payback, Mud)....
this defense does not work, and it isn't the number of times last year vs this year, it's that
Kruger is ever asked to go back into pass coverage, he is not that quick, depending.
Pettine/Oneil are misusing all the players on defense - that is why this defense is ranked
so badly.
This defense does NOT WORK, Mud. You can keep supporting it, and pettine and oneil, but the facts that
matter are, look at where the defense is this year. It's miscommunication city. If you won't put that on the coaches,
then fine, but you don't have to get all uppity and have a conniption fit over it. You didn't comment on the
comments by Buffalo dline players... talk about ignoring facts....
The Browns defense is not the players. It's the scheme and the coaches - players are frustrated,
and it is causing a lot of confusion on the field.
It is not on Kruger - he had eleven SACKS last year. 36 tackles, 17 assists.
Marcell Darius of the Bills had 36 tackles, 13 assists, and 10 sacks last year.
It doesn't matter how many times he dropped back last yr vs this year. it's that this defense does
not work, and the more they complicate it, the more it doesn't work. It's the freaking defense,
unless you think Marcell Darius is also a "bum".
Oneil and Pettine's defense has to go. And Mud, that is a fact, jack.
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