Could lack of chemistry be an issue for the defense ?

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(07-13-2021, 11:54 AM)TJ528 Wrote: If you truly believe you can gel in minicamps, camp, and preseason then you don't know football teams mentality.  Until that team is on the field the CB who's never played with a safety before may know a dude off the field but until that Safety is in the right spot multiple times the CB isnt going to trust him.   

It takes time for a team to gel.  Like I truly believe you arent gonna throw 5 OL that have never played together before and they gel in minicamp, camps and the pre-season.

How often does the whole team play together in the preseason?  Now that there's 3 games there's less time for them to gel in the preseason.  

Just my opinion but you see teams change players and they're better players but the teams worse because they didnt gel. 

That's exactly when it happens. They learn the scheme in meetings, walk through it by position group(s) + run it at real speed in team drills, then get reps/experience in the preseason (for those that weren't here or played together). During the season is when you want the muscle memory to take over and you just "do it". Things that were done wrong are corrected in films the monday after the game. Then in practice is when they focus on getting those movements that were wrong the previous week, right for the next week.