After Jonathan Gannon was hired to be the Arizona Cardinals’ new head coach, I reached out to two of my favorite Philadelphia Eagles’ beat writers to ask why the Eagles fans were so critical of their DC.
The common responses were:
- Depends too heavily on players winning their one-on-one matchups.
- Doesn’t blitz often enough.
- Schemes lacks creativity and innovation.
- Pass coverage assignment breakdowns which result in WRs, TEs and RBs being left uncovered.
- Too heavy of a reliance on zone coverages with cushions.
- Not enough attention paid to covering running backs.