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Drives me insane. Football is not baseball. The baseball-ification of football is a terrible, terrible trend. There are too many variables in football to make these analytics work in situations like what we saw on Sunday. The only thing to do that day given the momentum of the game was to kick the XP. That was it.

I have to respectfully disagree re: Davis and Holcomb. They are not average. Holcomb is a borderline backup to me in this league--certainly not a starter. His awareness is poor, he has significant physical limitations and because his awareness and recognition are so poor, he's always a step beyond and is constantly getting manhandled out of the way; he's the number one reason why our rush defense has been awful. Davis has some skills but at this stage, he should essentially be a 3rd down package LB and not an every down LB. He also at times looks totally lost out there. Essentially, because our LB unit is so terrible, it's as though we are playing defense with 9 guys. Sadly, this is not a new development and yet for reasons which I find completely inexplicable, we decided not to upgrade an absolutely glaring weakness on the roster. This weakness combined with JDR's awful scheme and completely predictable defense which doesn't even attempt to disguise coverages or blitzes or play to our strengths as a unit, will put a ceiling on our wins of about 7. It's a real shame too because if we had even a medicore defense that played with some aggression, we would be a playoff team.

JDL and Haslett are very similar. Both were incredibly mediocre head coaches and awful coordinators. I mean we’ve had some really bad defensive coordinators over the last 30 years. I used to think Greg Blache was the worst, but Del Rio is on a whole different level of suck. He’s like 5 standard deviations away from the next most awful coordinator we’ve ever had.

I'm sorry but it starts and ends with coaching. Everything we are doing wrong can be tied directly to coaching. This was one of the most poorly coached performances I've ever seen. It laid bare for me how truly awful our staff is, from Rivera on down. JDL is an absolute disgrace. Dude should have been canned last season. Norv Turner...sorry, Scott Turner, is a just like his old man: moments of promise surrounded by long spells of absolutely atrocious in game play calling. And Rivera is just clueless. Clueless on personnel and clueless on coaching. This is not a guy who should have final say over anything, let alone everything. All these teams that have been awful for long stretches--the lions, Jax, detroit, bengals, miami, the freakin giants, are all turning it around, but the commodores or the commanders or whatever stupid name we have, we are just stuck in neutral forever and ever.

what a fantastic post! All of it is true and hard to watch live. JDR failed as a head coach and he’s failed repeatedly as a coordinator. The defense has already quit on him. They know they aren’t being put in a position to succeed. This team needs a new coaching staff badly at this point.

In one half…

the offense gave us a chance the second half. The defense has been atrocious all season and last season. Just awful at every level. Rivera might be too dumb to see that del Rio needs to go.

awful awful coaching on both sides of the ball this entire game. Ron ain’t it and neither are any of these coordinators.

Turner is such a jackass. At least spread it out if you’re going to run it up the middle.

So much wrong on that play. The lack of disguise on the blitz; failure to cover the back.

This should be a wake up call for anyone who things we have the talent on defense or the coaching staff to be competitive consistently in this league. I think we have low IQ coaches and it shows. Going to be a long and painful season. Totally inexplicable game plan on offense. Just don’t understand what the logic could be there. It’s hard to watch.

Turner isnt good. He has moments but overall he's just not up to par. He really has no in game feel. This is a game where we should be passing to set up the run, not the other way around. We should be using gibson to the way we did last week but he wants to run him between the tackles. Just awful awful gameplan and playcalling and there's no excuse for it with the skill players we have. Just none.

It's so true. It's like they are completely allergic to them.

Can't do that at this stage in the season.

Of course they do. We can't get into a hole like this with this defense. Del Rio needs to be fired at halftime. The players coaching themselves would look better. How we could go into this season with Cole Holcomb as our starter is beyond me.

Yeah this is my problem with Turner--he's like a deer in the headlights sometimes. What are we doing with these calls. Just awful awful gameplan.

We do need to put Del Rio out of his misery. This defense is just atrocious on every level--scheme and matchups. Del Rio is just too stupid to be a defensive coordinator in this league.

Not sure how we can support this coaching staff when we are witnessing his kind of thing in year 3 of a system.

Not sure how we can support this coaching staff when we are witnessing his kind of thing in year 3 of a system.

Not sure how we can support this coaching staff when we are witnessing his kind of thing in year 3 of a system.

Not sure how we can support this coaching staff when we are witnessing his kind of thing in year 3 of a system.

We don’t have talent on defense but our scheme is worse.

we have an awful coaching staff. I can’t wait until Turner and del Rio are gone.

I can’t with Scott Turner. I just can’t.

1-15. Worst coaching staff in the league.