Thanks for the warning. I don’t read FICITION

I saw this and I’m glad someone other than me brought it to light. The article can be found here. Gilbride is an easy target every time a play fails. In fact, any coordinator is. Every OC makes calls he would like to take back during a game. I have repeatedly said, though, that KG has to get some credit for the good things the Giants have done the past two seasons. How soon we forget the days of John Hufnagel or, God forbid, THE FUMBLE!!

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/defending-kevin-gilbride-lets-look-at-the-facts/

He does makes some points but it still doesn’t explain why KG goes all Mike Martz at times.

Gilbride is not perfect, but we could do alot worse. I do think he gets too pass happy sometimes.

I’d tell you to look at his record in SD, but you’d just blame it on the personnel and THEY didn’t execute his game plan, blah, blah,blah…

FUNNY. Spagnolo comes in, and the defense becomes OFF-THE-SCALE???

BUT, the offense under KG keeps settling for FGs???

( why do you con’t to defend this guy??? The SB run was INSPITE of HIM!!)

he just needs to make some adjustments to the offense.. the washington game had an almost perfect game plan and he made good adjustments on the fly. He didn’t do well in the Eagles game. Don’t try to discredit him for the super bowl, we controlled the clock that game and although they didn’t score points.. they kept the ball out of the hands of the greatest offense in league history.

that KG is not in the upper tier of great offensive minds. I like guys like Todd Haley who seem to be one step ahead of opposing defenses. KG is just not dynamic enough with the talent he has been given. We could do better.

Who on this board wouldn’t have Haley in place of KG?

good like Gilbride did. Haley had a much more difficult assignment all year.

I kinda got disenchanted with Spags because toward the end of the season he was sending at least 5 on every play and we weren’t getting pressure on the quarterback.. I would have rather seen the team getting picked apart in some soft zone than giving up big plays. I don’t like blitzing and if i had my way they’d do it 10 or 15 percent of the time. That’s why i’m looking forward to something similar to the four aces next year. Osi, Kiwi, Tuck, Canty the four amigos

Most of the year Spags got it right though. A case could be made that Pierce was the weak link as the year wore on, making it too easy for tight ends and backs to blow by him for easy yards. But I think Spags did get a bit predictable as the year went by.

I think the Giants might want to consider a change to the 3-4 defense that in my opinion gives us a look that is much harder to read. I realize we lack the linebackers to achieve success in the 3-4 but perhaps with Canty now a Giant and a few good picks at interior linebacker we could think about it in the near future.

we’ve already got the perfect outside linebackers….tall rangy guys who can run like hell and still stop the run. Our secondary is right for the 3-4. We just need two big inside linebackers and a nose tackle and we are ready to return to the glory years of the mid 80’s to early 90’s.

why in the world would you want to change everything now??

We must constantly keep them off guard. In my opinion the 3-4 affords us an oportunity to be even more formidable on defense. It might afford us the opportunity to garnish the one goal that has so far eluded the G-men….the dynasty label.

who’s that Patton? MacArthur? (powerful stuff!!!)

I agree that you can’t be predictable ( i.e. KG sorry, just tying it back to the thread…)
but we’re on our way to destroying other teams OL and QB. Now isn’t the time to change, it’s the time to CHARGE and take NO QUARTERS!!!!

Kill anyone who THINKS of touching the ball. When it starts to become ineffective >>> then plan B. But for now lets use the weapons we have and win another (or 2) SUPERBOWL rings

It just seemed to me last year that our pass rush became less effective as the year wore on. And when you blitz and don’t at least get in the quarterback’s face you are asking for trouble. I don’t buy the argument that our lineman got tired. These guys are elite athletes in the prime of their careers. When you bring the same defensive look to the line of scrimage time after time the enemy is going to find ways to negate it.

That’s why I suggest that we not remain stagnent. I know everybody is tired of listening to me harp on it but I believe the 3-4 defense executed correctly is more flexible and less predictable.

seem happy with what we’ve got. And I am not saying that our blitzes haven’t been effective.

I do think that the blitz packages we send include more safety and corners than would be the case if we had four good linebackers. Guys like Big Ben and McNabb just flick those guys off and have made us pay for sending them. In the end I guess it just boils down to personnel.