I wrote a post yesterday questioning the game plan of Bill Sheridan. I don’t want to kill the coordinator who’s defense has dealt with turnovers and horrible field position for three weeks, but I’m about to anyway because his schemes are looking more and more like Tim Lewis’s (four die hards just punched a co-worker upon hearing this name) and less and less like Steve Spagnuolo’s every game.

Originally Tom Coughlin wanted to hire Dom Capers, a coordinator he worked with in Jacksonville, but the Giants balked at his asking price and before they could come around Capers had signed elsewhere. The Giants then looked in house and chose Sheridan over defensive backs coach Peter Giunta. The thought was Sheridan was going to continue to run Spagnuolo’s aggressive defense which included an abundance of fire zones/ cover 3′s with some minor Sheridan tweaks. The minor tweaks have become more then minor and last week it appeared Sheridan was running a read and react defense, which certainly doesn’t play to the strength of the Giants front 4. I’m not the only one noticing the confusion in gameplan:

“I think the Giants still have the personnel up front to be a solid defense, but coordinator Bill Sheridan needs to come up with a better game plan. Allowing C.C. Brown to get torched on a weekly basis isn’t much of a plan.” Matt Mosely (ESPN)

“He (Sheridan) talked all offseason about attacking more than Steve Spagnuolo used to do, then he played some weird, read-and-react-type scheme against the Saints. He bragged about how he wouldn’t drop defensive linemen into coverage as much, then I see Osi Umenyiora chasing receivers down the field. He talked about making only subtle changes — “wrinkles” — but his players talk about this defense as if its some foreign language they’ve never heard before.” Ralph Vaccihano (Daily News)

Sheridan needs to simplify the gameplan and most importantly bring enough of a disguised pass rush which will force teams to choose where they pick there one on ones up front. If you can get Tuck, Osi or Kiwi one on one you’ve done your job, but right now the blitzers have declared themselves and opposing quarterbacks have had time to slide blocking schemes and double Osi and Tuck, something Spagnuolo was able to avoid. So what’s the plan Bill?