Originally posted by like54ninjas
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POLL: Is It Time To Fire Bradley?
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Popper talks about Bradley's defense and the lack of turnovers:
@danielrpopper any chance you’ll write about LAC scheme and lack of turn overs? Did Seattle and/ or Jax have turnover issues with Bradley?
Gus Bradley was hired as the Seahawks’ defensive coordinator in 2009. He has been either a defensive coordinator or head coach in every season since. Here is how his defenses have finished in takeaways in each of those seasons:
Gus Bradley's defensesThis season, the Chargers have forced two turnovers in three games, which is tied for the third-fewest in the league.2019 Chargers 14 32nd 2018 Chargers 20 T-16th 2017 Chargers 27 6th 2016 Jaguars 13 T-30th 2015 Jaguars 18 26th 2014 Jaguars 20 24th 2013 Jaguars 21 T-24th 2012 Seahawks 31 T-5th 2011 Seahawks 31 T-5th 2010 Seahawks 22 T-25th 2009 Seahawks 23 T-23rd
As you can see, speaking generally, Bradley’s defenses have never been consistently adept at getting the football. His two best seasons in that area came in 2011 and 2012, when the Seahawks’ famed Legion of Boom was taking shape. Cornerback Richard Sherman’s rookie season was 2011. Safeties Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor joined the team in 2010. Also worth mentioning that 2012 was linebacker Bobby Wagner’s first season.
Those are four Hall of Fame-level players, and great defensive players force turnovers. But when you take away those two seasons, when Bradley didn’t have the same kind of talent on the back end, the picture becomes clearer.
Bradley said this week that he makes every defensive call with the idea of taking the football away. But that isn’t the priority in his Cover 3-heavy scheme. His main goal is to limit explosive plays. That is why his defenses regularly finish at the bottom of the league in blitz percentage. The philosophy is to simplify the defense so young players can grasp the system and play fast.
He is the antitheses of Bowles, who tries to overwhelm opposing offenses with different looks and lots of blitzes. Bradley believes that perfecting a small number of concepts will lead to better results than being decent at a large number of concepts. The downside of that approach is his defenses are not particularly aggressive and, as such, don’t consistently force takeaways unless they have extremely talented personnel. This season, the Chargers are missing two of their most talented defensive players, Derwin James and Drue Tranquill, and those missing pieces will obviously make forcing turnovers more difficult.
The philosophy can be successful, though. The Chargers finished in the top 10 in defensive DVOA in 2018 without being a prolific takeaway unit.
At the same time, it’s hard to be successful as a defense when you’re hovering near the bottom of the league in takeaways. Ultimately, the players need to step up and make plays on the ball. From a scheme perspective, the Chargers can try to be more aggressive in terms of blitzing. Right now, their 11.9 percent blitz rate is last in the league. If the turnover problems persist, we could see that rate increase as the season progresses.
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So for Lynn
It's hard to win the turnover battle when you don't get any.
You can also take that as,...... We need better players. Missing Derwin is huge for one. Young upcomers at LB and DL will help as they get better (Tillery,Murray,Tranquil)I'll also add Adderly.
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gonna volunteer a guess that points allowed is more important than takeaways on D ??5/11 Fuaga, 37 Kamari Lassiter, 40 Sinnott, 67 Bralen Trice, 69 Cedric Gray, 105 Jaylen Wright, 110 Braelon Allen, 140 Joe Milton, 181 Khristian Boyd, Tylan Grable, 225 Daijun Edwards, 253 Miyan Williams
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Ultimately, points allowed is the metric that counts. If you score more than the other team you win.
Turnover differential is a good metric, but mostly because if you take the ball away, the other team has fewer chances to score. if your D isn't allowing a score to begin with, then the turnover diff is a secondary thing.
The one exception is that if the timing is good, you win the turnover diff, then you can potentially turn that into more points. You have more possessions on offense, and sometimes have better field position. But it is hard to generalize it.
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Originally posted by 21&500 View Post
this is a great question Charge.
most frustrating part is watching our secondary get carved up with the dinks and at the most inopportune time, a deep ball
I think it's likely a soup of all those reasons
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Originally posted by Topcat View Post
This is my biggest frustration...our D usually plays well for 3+ quarters, only to lose it the last few minutes with that lame prevent D...
Q1- prevent
Q2- prevent
Q3- prevent
Q4- attack
its more like
Q1- prevent
Q2- prevent
Q3- prevent
Q4- asthma attack
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Is it time to fire Bradley, Yes...Brady owns Bradley and Bradley will never win with his scheming against playoff teams. We didn't even play 3 quarters of defense today before the opposing team figured out how to school bradley's scheming. Same thing happened in playoff game in New England. No pass rush with 4 rushing in fourth quarter and then Brady playing pitch and toss the whole second half. Whatever he's doing it's not working and he can't train up younger players. If he doesn't have a team with over whelming talent his defenses suck period! I said a few days ago when I said our offense gets a pass and they get a pass again even with the late pick off. Making a rook pass against a decent buccaneers defense is difficult to say the least.
:mybrainhurts:Chiefs won the Superbowl with 10 Rookies....
"Locked, Cocked, and ready to Rock!" Jim Harbaugh
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