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Originally Posted by The Franchise
I just don’t know how you fix this any more this season.
The defensive line has the talent…it’s just underperforming. I guess you hope that they figure it out.
The linebackers might get better with Gay starting over Niemann but even then…if the line is shit…the LBs aren’t going to stay clean.
The DBs are better off than the other two groups if they could get rid of Sorenson and his mistakes.
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You ever play fantasy baseball? More specifically, H2H leagues. Sometimes getting rid of a bad player and replacing him with merely average is a greater benefit than adding a good player over an average one.
That's where we find ourselves with Sorensen. But it's a good news/bad news situation - the good news is all we need to do is locate average. The bad news is that we may not have average on the roster right now. I guess you just send Thornhill out there and hope.
As for what else you do - you have to put it on the players to trust themselves and their teammates. I think the Diggs pass was a result of Thornhill trying to do too much and cover for lost coverage on the left side. He turned a bad play into a worse one. When our run defense fails it's almost always because someone is out there trying to make the play instead of just doing their job and creating a play for someone else.
These guys have GOT to focus on doing their own job and trusting that their teammates will do theirs and the play will get made.
Of course that would be a lot easier if, y'know, their teammates weren't breaking down somewhere on seemingly every snap.
I think your best hope is that Jones and Clark get back in there and get you average play at DE, allowing the DTs to focus on gap control. That would free the 'backers up to flow/fill as needed while adding Gay's athleticism will take some burden off Bolton. Replace Sorensen with Thornhill to free up Mathieu a little bit more as well.
But I think if it is going to come together, its going to have to start at the DL. So long as it remains the problem it's been to this point, they're going to continue to play from behind the sticks and the Yakety Saks defense will continue...