The Pete Carmichael Problem

blasian said

I wonder how many people didn’t think Gary Gibbs was the issue 😄

I remember being at the at game in 2008 against Minny. We never disguised our blitzes and showed an all out. Minny gets the TD and Porter got injured on that play. We lose.

I remember when my buddy texted me that Gibbs walked out with a box of how excited I was that a change was being made. Nothing against him as a person but he was not the right man for the job.

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Gibbs played cornerbacks on sides instead of having CB1 (McKenzie) shadow WR1

This is how Fred Thomas, Jason David, Jason Craft, and everyone else the Saints tried at CB2 got torched

He also had a thing for having Mark Simoneau (MLB) crash down to the line of scrimmage and get boxed out of the play... there is no reason I can produce for a middle linebacker averaging 4 tackles per game across two seasons. Imagine carrying that defense into 2009 🤦🏽‍♀️