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(02-19-2019, 12:28 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Can't argue with any of this. We have 1 elite player on and a couple of really good players on D and the rest are ehh.  This is where I think a young defensive coach wanting to become a DC can make hay. You take a unit that was dead last year and move them up to 18, that is saying something. It why I think a younger, hungrier guy makes sense.

Good point 'wedge.....just gotta find him now.

(02-19-2019, 12:29 PM)pally Wrote: There is a difference though between saying...the players are crap and saying you don't have the players necessary to run my scheme successfully.  Zampese, for example, was a coordinator who wouldn't change his scheme despite the inability of his players to succeed in that scheme.  Grantham was unwilling to make adjustments to the personnel. At least that was his excuse.   Bellichik teams have been successful on the defensive side because they play to the personnel.   

Correct.  However, effort was lacking too.  Missed tackles, etc.  Early scheme was questionable, effort and acumen of players was as well.