Chris Jones and his 15+ sacks

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Originally Posted by TheGuardian

Yup. And once we lost Waston it really just had a domino effect over the whole defense.

I think what we didn't really consider was the impact it would have on McDuffie's versatility.

Prior to the Watson injury, McDuffie was still being used about 1/3 of the time in the slot, and those are likely usually in those 3rd and short situations that are just killing us right now.

Watson being replaced by Johnson has hurt, for sure. But I think we've seen a real fall off in McDuffie over that period of time as well because he's being used almost exclusively out wide and so teams are attacking that lack of length.

Like you said, it's a real domino effect that's just made everything worse.