The tag line made me laugh after last week. This game we hopefully do see our players able to keep their footing.

With any new D there are always struggles getting the scheme and players bedded down. Hafley is also a novice OC at the NFL level and that isn’t the same as college. He too will have a learning curve over and above the settling in by his players. That always suggested that the D will take time.

It will be interesting to see how the tackling looks on firm ground and if the footing issues might have affected the calling against a similar QB type or if Hafley learned and adapts.

I’m curious to see if Cooper sees more action, Williams gets on the field and in what role and whether Enagbare sees as much. I do think that the interior DL needs to be more impactful pushing the pocket in this one.

Fans, as they tend to do, rendered their verdict on Hafley before all the evidence was presented.

An assumption was made this would be an aggressive, meat-eating defense, but it's not shown any carnivorous leaning.

Yet.

You don't win many games where the opponent has 34.

New defensive coordinator gave up 34 points in first endeavor. Nothing new so far. Same old, same old. Maybe the Packers are not " blessed with an abundance of talent on defense. "

I have no idea what Hafleys D background is. If its not much my assumption, they gave him Barrys game plan and said tweek it.
A four man rush only works when you also have vesitile linebackers to cover outs and fill holes. If not you send the house like Barry.

The Packers need to play with a lead and make the Colts offense one dimensional. Then the defense can get after Richardson and force mistakes and hopefully turnovers. The defense gave the Packers a good chance to build a lead against the Eagles early which could have made them one dimensional and could have taken Barkley out of the game to some degree at least. However the offense didn't get it done and the Packers paid the price. The Packers also helped to beat themselves with penalties, mental errors, poor OL play and dropped passes.

This week needs to be different. The OL needs to play solidly and the defense needs to make tackles and get off the field. Thanks, Since '61

When I look at the stats for Colts last game, one would surmise and easy win for Houston except their inability to score TDs in the red zone. This could present a big problem as we struggled with that last game.

Long overdue for our D to step up and win one but I’ll believe it when I see it. Love or no Love, this is still winnable. Just look at what Chicago and Pittsburgh accomplished with their defenses. GPG!

We have a new D coordinator so, of course, it's going to take him some time to learn the NFL. Hopefully, sooner than later. But again, these starters saw very little preseason action. Accordingly, I'm not surprised that their tackling was poor. Smith looked invisible on the D line. Pass rush must be better. LBs need to be more engaged.

I know what I'm doing if I'm the Colts: Feed Jonathan Taylor. Last week he had 16 carries for 48 yards--a 3.0 yard per carry average. Is he going to have two games in a row like that, especially when the second one is against the Packers? I'm looking for Colts to run it right down our throats. I hope the Packers are somehow able to break character and actually stop the run. I'm doubtful that they will be able to do it.

It’s time for the D to carry the day—it’s been a long time coming.
Go Packers!!!

The more pressure you put on a young Defense.
The more they'll cave in.
We were at this point with Barry.
When you replace 25% of the players.
You must resort to Baby steps.
Just stop the pressure.
Your panic won't do anybody any good.
Support what they do.
It's too early to condemn.

Get the young rookies some playing time early and often. By the end of the season their progression is going to be off the charts. This is one of the reasons Y GB qent from terrible to elite from the first severel qeeks to the last 5 qeeks of the season last year.

Adjustments to improve the team:

1.) Cooper and eventually Hooper in for Mcduffie and Eric.
2.) Cooper the MLB and Quay the OLB
3.) JA should play press man coverage only. He had 2 pass deflections (one should've been an int but not PI called on AJ. The deep pass JA in soft coverage and peeping in the backfield. All other completions on him came in soft coverage. Stokes should be on the big fast superhuman receivers and not JA.
4.) One deep safety = auto TD if the CB is beaten unless you have an elite S back there. McKinney only should be in one deep and nobody else.
5.) Evan at Deep safety and Bullard at box safety or occasional N CB.
6.) More Wooden and Devonte over Clark and Slayton at interior DL.
7.) Blitz six on occasion in cover 1 vs dual threat QB's. Especially vs unproven QB's like Hurts and like Richardson vs the blitz. Every DB needs to be in press man if they do this to prevent the little check doqns.
8.) Improve DB hands/reaction time for int's.
9.) More Ballentine/Valentine if the other CB's have an off day.
10.) I'd say improve tackling but it's tough to read since they've had no preseason and the worst field conditions in NFL history.
11.) Cut the penalties in half as they had 10 I believe and many that resulted in Eagles points and extended drives on 3rd or 4th down plays..
12.) Morgan RG, Jenkins C, Ryan LG.
13.) Lloyd as a potential future upgrade over Emanuel but Emanuel has been fantastic it's just Lloyd has a higher ceiling.
I believe overall GB gifted the Eagles 24 points on penalties (or no calls), field conditions and mistakes (leaving their gap assignment). I seen nothing that showed me GB was just flat out getting beat in the one on one's (u can say JA, but the one long one he got caught peeping and the short ones he had him dead to rights but slipped on the field.
14.) Maybe Bullard, Mckinney and Evan can all be on the field at the same time in an obvious passing down.
15.) LVN over Smith. LVN had the best PFF score of the entire DL but needs more snaps and should be the eventual starter over smith.
16.) Interior DL getting double teamed to death. They need to make the proper adjustments to this.
17.) Jeff needs to make better in game adjustments. I was very disappointed in his first game. They did a great job stopping Hurts from running and Barkley for the most part outside of KC getting blocked in the back and Eric losing gap containment on the 34 yd run.
18.) MLF needs to utilize the Love shove and FB/HB dives 2 yds behind LOS instead of delayed handoffs 10 yds behind LOS on short down yardage situations.

Seems to me the defense would be better off to eventually bench all the players who played under Pettine and Barry, they tackled poorly again, were pushed off the ball and gave the game away. A fresh start is what's needed, it's the same ole same ole with these guys. Put the guys in who are hungry to play, you can start with Valentine and Williams and bench Ja and Quay. Sounds drastic but if the D puts up another 34 points on the board, somethings gotta give.