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Originally Posted by JakeF
We just disagree. I have seen no sign of Sutton using scheme to do anything other than play more and more "bend". Sutton will never have enough talent to run the scheme he wants to because no team can put that much talent into the defense without destroying their team. We should have grabbed Wade Phillips when Denver let him go.
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I don't think this defense needs as much talent as you think, nor were our previous defenses (counting injuries) nearly as talented as you think. Right now, in most of the games we played, let's point to one execution problem. 50/50 balls. If our DBs were AVERAGE at defending these, we'd be looking at NE, Philly, SD, Denver, Washington, Oakland, Houston and saying... "hmm... our defense played pretty well." And that's considering that our talent has some pretty big gaps.
Yes, there are some annoying nuances to the scheme here and there. No, that doesn't solve for how we defend power offenses like Pitt or Dallas. But the base dime scheme isn't nearly as flawed as we make it out to be. If we executed the basics we'd be getting much better results right now.