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Originally Posted by YontsRBake
The fact that’s he’s had a good group of pass rushers every time he’s had a successful defense and a weaker pass rushing core every time he hasn’t is not something to be ignored no matter what he’s drafting and going after in FA. Okafor, Chris Jones, Breeland Speaks is closer to what he had on the Saints than what he did on the Giants.
Justin Tuck, Osi, and Strahan were more of the reason that defense won the SB and held the best offense in history to 14 points in the SB moreso than Sam Madison, Gibril, and Aaron Ross. Do you disagree with that?
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Saints barely fit into the conversation since that was Bountygate. He had good DEs in 2011, and nothing special at CB in St. Louis. In 2016, the #2 defense had a lot more to do with the secondary (Collins, Apple, Jenkins - outstanding) than the DEs. Of course he had something special in 2008 with his pass rushers. That doesn't make what he's doing here wrong. Spags basically decided to have a balanced defense vs. put every single dollar on our DL. That could change as the years go on. But I'd sure as hell rather see a bunch of average guys than 3 world beaters and giant piles of shit everywhere else.
And that's not even getting into if that would still work in a modern defense. Especially in a game where QBs are trying to get rid of the ball super fast and CBs and LBs have to play with so much range.