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Originally Posted by Superturtle
The defense has improved in the past, yes, but there were a number of circumstances that may not be entirely applicable this year.
For whatever reason, Clark played up from his usual level of complete waste of space to decent for a stretch of games. Not sure that happens again.
The defense in 2019 needing time to develop cohesion is understandable given it was a completely new scheme with a bunch of new key contributors. Absolutely no excuse or reason for optimism except they just sucked so badly it can only go up from here.
There's also not a lot out there to plug in and fix the problem. Pennel and Suggs were arguably the adds that elevated this defense to championship level in 2019, and I'm not seeing a whole lot out there that Veach can pick up. Seeing the performances up to this point I am ****ing baffled and more than a bit pissed we had Ingram in and let him leave without a contract.
As it stands I'm getting 2018 vibes from this defense and that's a horrible feeling to have.
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We didn't really add much last year either. But by the end of the season we got sneaky good on D. For whatever reason spags defense seems to start the season very slowly.