The 2016 defense may have been overranked. But there's no disputing they were very very good. There are more than enough "holy shit" complaints about McAdoo losing his locker room the year after to fairly question if Spagnuolo would have been successful on defense in 2017 behind a competent head coach.
I'm not giving him a free pass. But I'm going to use this as my reason for optimism.
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