Duke Tobin: Held onto some players too long

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(Yesterday, 11:39 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I wouldn't put a lot of stock into their last previous places of employment, as the Saints are in salary cap hell and just cannot afford decent players right now, New England was definitely a team in transition last year led by a 1st year HC who was in over his head and handed a roster with very little meat to it. When you look at the body of work from the two positional coaches in their respective entirety, you'll see that they are quality coaches with strong backgrounds.

Yep

IMHO, we had to have a change of direction on defense. Under Lou's system we had four just really bad seasons including the last two. One ok season and one little above average season. Some of that is on the F.O. for sure. But in the same breath Lou's system just wasn't working either. These coaches haven't developed Murphy at all. Stone and the secondary were lost the first 12 games of the year. We had near zero pass rush besides Trey most of the season. And he didn't try and fix it until it was to late.

I believe we also held onto our defensive coaching staff to long.