01-29-2025, 03:57 PM
(01-29-2025, 03:52 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The quoted question was specifically about the defense though.
"The biggest takeaway I had from my convo with him was that they tried to keep the core of the SB defense together & now realized they held on to a few players a little too long"
I guess when I hear them say holding on for too long, Bell wouldn't be part of that because he did leave for a year.
I didn't personally think there was anything wrong with keeping the guys they had going into last season.
The problem was more that they haven't developed hardly any of the young guys to take over.
DB room had declined with the losses of Awuzie and especially Bates.
DL depth was not good.
Awuzie wasn't good after his injury that was just a crappy fact of how dudes decline. I don't know I think there is plenty of regret in bringing Bell back. I also go to his "influx" comment and say I think he regrets maybe not swapping some out. In terms of development, I think that is why they went with a new staff. We can look back in hindsight and claim all the picks were bad but plenty were well thought of and our staff got nothing out of them.
