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Originally Posted by O.city
It works fine I think in the regular season. Depth is always tested. But in the playoffs, you need your horses to be there and make plays.
My thing now with defense is that teams are just so good at finding your weaknesses (getting a Rb on a LB etc) that you need those dudes that can be difference makers to actually make up for that and be difference makers.
Your Chris Jones and Frank Clarks can be disruptive and cover some of those holes.
The defense is never going to be complete. No team will be. That's why you need difference makers to help with, we just seem to always have those guys hurt or under perform.
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The fact that offenses have gotten so good at attacking your weaknesses is exactly why the stars and scrubs model that Veach seems to favor is so flawed.
If you have a weak point on your defense, opponents WILL exploit it. All the money in the world spent on our D-Line doesn't mean shit when you can barbecue our LBs in coverage pretty routinely. And teams won't do it every play or every drive (it isn't Madden), but you KNOW that when they need it, they'll have it.
Give me 3 above average players over 1 'difference maker' and 2 JAGs every time. Especially on defense.
It is more critical than ever that your defense simply be sound across the board than it is that you have stars on it. Without Clark or Jones last week we saw Ogbah and Okafor play better. Saunders has stepped up his game. Go run with simply decent guys at EVERY spot on the field and you'll be in good shape.
But we're playing 9 on 11 on too many plays given the god-awful condition of this linebacker group. Cannot have that.