7 hours ago
(7 hours ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I mean, they're still All-Pro players with a brain and common sense. They know how to communicate. Just because you don't have a DC and no defined scheme doesn't mean all 3 Fred Warners are going to line up on top of each other at the center of the field and leave the outside completely uncovered or 2 Vita Veas are both going to try to rush the same gap and collide. Lol
I'm not saying they'd be a well-oiled machine or be winning any battles through disguises or anything like that. I am just curious how much of that loss they'd be able to overcome by just being outright objectively significantly better than their opponents.
A scheme would be necessary regardless. If they weren't given one, they would have to develop one themselves. The simplest thing they could do is play cover 1 every down but then you still have the question of what their run fits are. Offenses would just run pick routes, drags and crossers to take advantage of them.
Playing zone without a scheme would be effectively impossible. They wouldn't have any checks or adjustments to take advantage of if the offense overloads them to a side. Now, these guys would probably know some checks/adjustments to make but at that point they are developing their own scheme again.
They would get their asses kicked for a while until they figured out the finer details, I think.
