12-06-2024, 07:27 PM
(12-06-2024, 05:43 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You are correct, and part of the problem lies in that while he's been afforded mostly good free agent acquisitions to work with, he and his position coaches have failed to develop any drafted players to be ready to step up into solid starting roles when those free agent deals ran out. Being a coordinator is a multi faceted position with multiple roles. Part of it is overseeing the execution of the scheme in practices and games, but another part of his role is to oversee the development of young talent. He can pin some of that on the position coaches, but ultimately those position coaches are accountable to the coordinator.
It's something that just didn't work out for them. Getting Lou high-priced players to stock his defense was exactly what they should have done while the young qb was on a rookie deal. No complaints there. Several of us begged for that very course of action.
Honestly, it really looked like they were taking the correct steps to sustain a serviceable defense when the guys they knew were leaving left. I had zero problem with any of it.
Until I saw the result.
Something is lacking in development or evaluation. I'm guessing evaluation due to lack of scouts. Lou does not seem like much of a teaching coordinator, to be honest. Hard to tell when you can still pin things on the tiny scouting dept. The guys very well might not be as good as we thought.
If you'd have told any of us that we'd get FA classes like Lou's at any point in the Marvin era we'd have laughed you off the board. That's a fact.
Tragically, this is going to end up being the culture issue we'd all just as soon forget about. It was nice to think spending on FAs would fix this, but it's a deeper issue. This is not an agile franchise. It's awkward and unsure of itself. Possible lazy and apathetic.
