Football Zebold: Taggart Glad He Got the Right Guy to Lead Defense

[Orlando Bull]

Yes, he was awful that year that Oakland was in the Super Bowl... I really hope we don't make a national championship game so that we can avoid that embarrassment.

 

2011 Radiers... AWFUL TEAM. Who cares who the coach was... They were still in the upper half of the league in sacks (15th), interceptions (12th), and passes defended (6th).

 

Meanwhile, they were 20th in time of possession and bottom 5 in throwing interceptions. So, the defense was on the field a lot which is usually not conducive to good stats from a yardage standpoint.

 

The 2011 Raiders weren't bad because of the DC, they were bad because they have blown every draft since the Reagan administration.

[GaUSFBull]

Yes, he was awful that year that Oakland was in the Super Bowl... I really hope we don't make a national championship game so that we can avoid that embarrassment.

 

2011 Radiers... AWFUL TEAM. Who cares who the coach was... They were still in the upper half of the league in sacks (15th), interceptions (12th), and passes defended (6th).

 

Meanwhile, they were 20th in time of possession and bottom 5 in throwing interceptions. So, the defense was on the field a lot which is usually not conducive to good stats from a yardage standpoint.

 

The 2011 Raiders weren't bad because of the DC, they were bad because they have blown every draft since the Reagan administration.

 

^^^^^^^this

 

Coaching is full of ups and downs ... but let's leave facts like this out because they don't back up our premise that CB sucks as a DC.  We can only have a good discussion once everyone acknowledges that CB is a horrible DC and we hope CWT will fire him by the end of October, if the Bulls aren't undefeated.

 

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[NewEnglandBull]

Of course it works both ways. If this guy has a great year as defensive coordinator he probably leaves for a better job and then we can listen to Slick ***** about how we should have done more to keep him.

[bullsbucsfan426]

I don't know that Bresnahan will be better than Cosh.

 

I've seen a lot of pro coaches try and come down to the college level. Nick Saban is a major exception guys-he was a superstar at LSU who made a mistake by going to the NFL. He came back to Alabama and we all know the rest there. 

 

Even Charlie Weiss who is an excellent NFL OC, came down to the college level and struggled. Personally I don't know why he continues to come coach college. He was good in New England, he was good in Kansas City, it doesn't make sense to me that he wants to be a college coach when he's a **** good NFL OC. 

 

Maybe Bresnahan will succeed here-if he can develop his talent. I don't know that he'll do that, but even getting decent competence out of his players will allow him to do a lot of things that college offenses haven't seen...and oh, will the turnovers roll if he can. 

[Apis Bull]

I don't give much credence to what was done while in Oakland.  Al Davis interfered way too often and was terrible in talent evaluation.  Maybe this guy just didn't have the talent to have a good defense.  I think I'd take Harbaugh's recommendation seriously.

[Dogma]

Slick took his tough guy pills this morning

[Who'sYourData?]

 

Ill reserve judgement until after the season is over. If Harbaugh and Taggart like him, that's good enough for me.

 

Who cares what you do? Its pretty no brain that if Harbaugh liked him he'd have him on staff and Taggart doesn't know him, he was referred to him. 

 

 

I guess you missed the part about Taggart having worked with him before.

[Mission9]

 

Wasn't someone calling for his head already and the season hasn't even started?

 

 

The question you should be asking is if this guy is so good, why isn't he working for the 49ers?  Oh, I know why.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/877802-oakland-raiders-chuck-bresnahan-is-the-weakest-link

 

 

Oakland Raiders: Chuck Bresnahan Is the Weakest Link

The phrase "defense wins championships" has been proved time and time again in the NFL

But in the Oakland Raiders' case? The defense is a huge thorn in the side of an offensive bully.

The problem stems from the defensive play-calling, Chuck Bresnahan in particular. Against the New England Patriots, Bresnahan brought out a quarter defense; for the football ignorant, a three man pass rush and a whole lot of defensive backs.

 

As Jon Richie would say, "a bonehead call."

 

The one thing everyone who pulled for the Raiders against the Patriots had in common was the opinion that Oakland's pass rush would need to be completely effective in the form of the defensive line creating havoc in Tom Brady's face as well as the multiple blitz packages that Oakland can offer. Hitting Brady is the key to beating the Patriots.

Sure, Oakland was able to hit Tom Brady—after the whistle. Richard Seymour's early penalty can be excused, the crowd was loud and in the heat of the moment the whistle might of not made it to him, understandable. But for the rest of the game, Oakland's pass rush, which is usually highly praised due to the beasts that make up the front four, was nowhere to be seen.

 

Mike Mitchell is the only player to sack Brady, a busted play that saw the quarterback actually scramble and head out of the luxury of the pocket, only to be downed by Mitchell as he took a dive.

The defensive play-calling is terrible. There is simply no better way to put it. With the athletes on defense under contract with the Raiders organization, this defense is supposed to be high caliber and top notch.

The Raiders have all the tools to be dominate, but the problem stems from the defensive coordinator.

 

Chuck Bresnahan was fired from Cincinnati after being there from 2004 to the 2008 NFL season due to having three stagnant years as defensive coordinator. His defenses finished in the bottom of the league between 25 (not in chronological order) 30.

 

How does that quality this man for the job to steer our defense into the right path?

Oh, from 2000 to 2003, Bresnahan was the defensive coordinator, the season the Oakland Raiders faced off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl.

Understandably, Coach Jackson wants to surround himself with those he is familiar with. Al Saunders and Chuck Bresnahan both worked with Coach Jackson in Baltimore, but Coach Jackson's saying, "the best man for the job" is not applying to the coaching staff.

 

 

There is a lot of problems with Oakland's defense, from injuries to failures in second-half adjustments. While putting so much blame on the coaches can only go so far before the players need to be analyzed, Bresnahan is not helping the matters.

When Oakland traveled east to battle the Buffalo Bills, a "prevent" defense was apparent—a defense which short slants will shred every time due to the space given. Bresnahan squandered a 18-point lead with horrible calls, which showed up against the Patriots.

 

Explaining the failure to neutralize the run is task that not even Rolando McClain can do. But the pass? Blame goes directly to Chuck Bresnahan for that.

Who allows a rookie in Chekwa (definitely a good player, he will come to his own) or a constantly unreliable Joe Porter to match up against the most deadliest receiver in the NFL from the slot position? Welker accumulated over 150 yards on a rookie and a guy that should be on the practice squad.

No adjustments.

The only way the Oakland Raider team as a whole will get better is by the defensive coordinator taking off the silver and black colored lenses and seeing the problem. The players on the depth chart are perfectly able to make plays, but they need to be given the right formations to work out of.

 

 

This is not a protest for Bresnahan's head, this is the opposite. This is a plea from an Oakland Raider supporter to tell Chuck Bresnahan that he needs to right the defensive ship or Oakland will face another horrible offseason beginning after Week 17 instead of moving on to postseason play.

Fix the defense, it's your job. Hue Jackson may have faith in you, but The Raider Nation is beginning to lose patience, which means Mr. Al Davis is beginning to smell the stench of failure in the air and when that happens?

Someone loses their job.

 

Nothing could be worse than the "Skippysoft" defense we  had to endure the last couple of years.

Edited August 13, 2013 by Mission9

[slick1ru2]

 

Yes, he was awful that year that Oakland was in the Super Bowl... I really hope we don't make a national championship game so that we can avoid that embarrassment.

 

2011 Radiers... AWFUL TEAM. Who cares who the coach was... They were still in the upper half of the league in sacks (15th), interceptions (12th), and passes defended (6th).

 

Meanwhile, they were 20th in time of possession and bottom 5 in throwing interceptions. So, the defense was on the field a lot which is usually not conducive to good stats from a yardage standpoint.

 

The 2011 Raiders weren't bad because of the DC, they were bad because they have blown every draft since the Reagan administration.

 

^^^^^^^this

 

Coaching is full of ups and downs ... but let's leave facts like this out because they don't back up our premise that CB sucks as a DC.  We can only have a good discussion once everyone acknowledges that CB is a horrible DC and we hope CWT will fire him by the end of October, if the Bulls aren't undefeated.

 

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So you can't even find a piece on a blog like BR or any sports outlet that says he is this great DC you claim he  is, all you can do is find someone who agrees with you on TBP? You want to go with someone who picks out the couple of halfway decent stats and ignore several FRANCHISE Records (the bad kind) along with top 25 all TIME WORSE NFL RECORD of yards per play, one that goes back beyond the merger of the American and National leagues. Talk about no shred of credibility.  Do you even get that in two years since he couldn't get ANY job in the NFL after his last stint?  That's how good those couple of stats are considered, the ones you latch onto. And if the defense is as bad as the one he had in Oakland, I can't wait for the positive spin you are going to give it.

[GaUSFBull]

And if the defense is as bad as the one he had in Oakland, I can't wait for the positive spin you are going to give it.

 

 

There will be no positive spin if the defense is bad.  I try to stay objective when it comes to Bulls football (last season aside).  Your nose is so pinned to the grindstone of trying to get us to believe how awful CB has been that you can't see that I (and most others, so it appears) are not arguing another side, I'm merely disagreeing with your judgment of his career based on a couple of years.  I'm not going to spend my time doing the research, but it's pretty clear he's had good years about as much as he's had bad ones, and that's COACHING.  

 

If FSU followed your logic back in 1976, they probably never would have hired Bobby Bowden as head coach, after his stint at WVU.  Yeah, that's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but it has some validity.   

 

But hey, who am I to get in the way of your flight into the face of logic?  I'll stand aside now, but one last question for you:  How will you spin it if USF has a decent season and defense is one of the major reasons why?