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I was disappointed with the end of the game "play back so they have a tough time getting in the end zone" and "giving up first downs is ok as long as the clock rolls" strategies the most.

However, I think that the touchdown at the end of the half confused everyone. Personally, I was 100% sure Smith was just gonna run it out of bounds and save the 20 seconds on the clock and kick the go ahead field goal. You could tell Cort thought the same because he let Davis get behind him for the easy TD.

But yeah, our D needs to play 110% and not just let off the gas because we're up by a couple scores. If the onside kick goes their way, they have good field position, 40 seconds on the clock and a timeout.

 

It must really piss the players off too.

You're doing great and in that adrenalin zone and then your told to back off and give ground.

It just doesn't work. When does our style of prevent ever chew up the clock?CC has definitely turn things around but it's still a work in progress.

 

god when is the constant whining going to stop...do you guys realize were not the only team in the NFL that uses the prevent defense? In fact, we're one of 32 teams that use it..

The "Stay back and don't let them score" defense is DESIGNED for the same situations everyone on this board moans about when we don't line up in a cover 2. It's supposed to keep the clock rolling/make the opposing team burn timeouts at the risk of giving up the short routes, and more often then not, It works. Nothings going to change, you can cry all you want on how you want us to blitz on 3rd and 45 or blitz when we're up by 7 with 30 seconds left, but its just not the smartest thing to do..Thats why Cecil/Schwartz are on the field on sundays and we're on our couches.

And another thing, FYI, It's not Scwhartz defense, he didn't invent the prevent defense. Watch another NFL game..

 

Bollocks.

The defence was having fun being creative and causing problems for the 49ers.

They blew 11 minutes against our regular D and got a field goal. Against our style of prevent they scored a TD in less than 3 minutes including giving up a 30 yd pass.

Going prevent is design to make the offence take the underneath passes and short gains and keep moving the chains.When that Offence gets inside your 20 it's back to your normal D.

We execute it poorly,don't take time off the clock and consistently allow teams to score on us when we go prevent.

It's not a bad scheme we just don't run it well.

 

1. I'm confused. Any time you give up points your obviously executing poorly, thats not what this thread is about though...He's upset because we ran the prevent instead of our standard defense, not because we ran it poorly.

2. They blew 11 minutes in a drive consisting of short passes, running plays, and no sense of urgency. Common sense tells you its going to be harder to score TD's against a defense protecting the big play, then it will against one that puts 7 in the box. But obviously teams will score on it occasionally. If that made sense..

3. I'm not sure why so many of you trust our "standard" defense...which is the same defense that gave up 59 points 3 weeks ago, not to mention 35 in a single quarter..

 

Hey our defence has been pretty good over the last two weeks.

Our prevent defence has consistently let teams keep games close.It's the Fisher MO.

As soon as we get a lead we go prevent. It almost always ends in the opposing team scoring and then we're in the nervous position of a tight finish.

The 49ers game wasn't too bad because we had a 14 point lead. I think we run it too soon and we run it poorly. When we run it we also often go into our prevent offence, which is to just run it up the middle until we get stopped.

How often does that end up 3 and out and then the prevent D is back in play.

It's not a comfortable thing to watch us turtle when we're playing well. Titans fans are used to close finishes that the coaching brings upon itself.

There's just no need for it.