Larry Coyer

[Ramblinwreck7]

It seems to me that most people want to get rid of Larry Coyer after this season is over. Our defense has been decent this year, partly because of an improved run defense, but the secondary has been really bad. The main complaints I see about Coyer are the large cushions that his CB's sometimes give, and his lack of creativity in the defensive scheme, especially blitzing.

When Coyer was brought in, the colts defense was supposed to become more aggresive. In 2009, Coyer's 1st year, the colts had a top ranked defense if I remember right and they were more aggresive like we were told they would be. But ever since then, and especially this season, the defense has become more vanilla and less aggresive. They don't blitz as much and our CB's give way to much of a cushion half of the time. My question is, why? Why would Coyer all of a sudden stop coaching the defense like he did in 2009 and switch back to the soft Tampa 2 defense?

I don't think you can complain about his creativity as of late because of what he was doing along the D-line, as the colts used a 3 man line with Philip Wheeler as a potential 4th pass rusher in the Bengals game, kind of like a 3-4. The defense seemed more predictable earlier in the season to me than it does now. I would like to see more blitzing though, maybe even throwing in a CB or S blitz.

The last point I want to make is does Coyer get to choose what players he uses in his defense? Maybe he wanted to start Justin Tryon over Jacob Lacey. Maybe he wants to start Kevin Thomas at CB, whom for some extremely weird and odd reason doesn't even dress up even though he is healthy. Same thing with Jerry Hughes. I thought Hughes would be used as a 3rd pass rusher at the DT position in obvious passing situations, like they used to use Raheem Brock. But for some unknown reason again, he didn't suit up for the Bengals game, after getting his first career sack against the Chiefs, even though it was called back because of a personal foul penalty committed by another colt player.

I personally like Coyer if he coaches aggresively, but I don't like seeing 10+ yard cushions and short dump off passes that go for 10 yards over the middle.

Edited October 22, 2011 by Ramblinwreck7

[Ramblinwreck7]

Can someone delete this? I thought for sure I posted this in the colts football section. I copied and pasted it there but I don't know how to get rid of this post.

Edited October 22, 2011 by Ramblinwreck7