Lou speaks on the state of the defense

[Joelist]

The biggest need on defense is for the dumb mistakes to stop. These kids have the physical tools in spades to be great but it is not coming together mentally. The DL looks worse than it actually is because the secondary keeps failing to read plays correctly and react promptly resulting in receivers having huge holes in the zones to go to. That said the DL is not blameless as the run game issues are tackling and failure to set edges. The thing is that either these kids need to start executing Lou's system correctly and fast or Lou needs to reshape the system to something the kids CAN execute correctly. In offseason I would think IDL needs to be addressed in both free agency and the draft.