The NFL actually put together a pretty decent visual graphic based around PFF coverage analysis from last year:
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I think us and Green Bay stand out as being obsessively slanted toward cover 3/4/6 zones. This meets the eye test. The Browns are so consistent and vanilla in their soft coverage schemes that the opposing QB gets comfortable. I want the opposing QB uncertain--I want him to be guessing every play what we could throw at him. I want players moving around and coverages to be disguised pre-snap. Every tenth of a second you can make an opposing QB hold onto the ball because he's uncertain is a win in the NFL. This is exactly what I want out of my defensive coordinator--someone who is going to take every tenth of a second he can from the QB.
This is exactly what Joe Woods is not.
I don't think that Woods can succeed at this level unless he re-invents himself dramatically. If you're going to play these soft zone schemes this regularly, you have to attack the opponent when you win. What we've seen time-and-time-again is that, even if we win and get the opponent into third and long, he doesn't deviate--he doesn't attack. He just gives the opponent the same easy, comfortable reads and watches as they convert. In his mind, he's telling himself that he called the right defense--but in reality, he's consistently fucking up.
So yes, I'm calling for Joe Woods's head. I'm not expecting the overall scheme to change. We can keep our base defense and everything we've worked on in training camp. However, when the defense wins, or the offense screws up, and we get them in a high leverage situation (like third and 10 with the game on the line), I need a defensive coordinator who can dial up the intensity and make the opposing QB uncomfortable. Joe Woods proved to me on Sunday that he isn't that man.
Note: "Dial up intensity" does not necessarily mean blitzing. It means doing things on the field to make the opposing QB uncomfortable and uncertain.