re: The puzzling thing about House

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What the heck happened? The D is a mess with no successful adjustments from the first snap to the last snap

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I didn't really notice if the Defense was making adjustments or not last year, but they clearly suck this year compared to last year. And I think their performance is alot worse than can be explained away by average talent level of the players -- which I don't buy anyway. So, something must be wrong with the coaching.

just speculating here, some possible causes could be:

1. Myaybe Defensive coaching staff is very short-handed right now. That's causing lots of disruption to coaches' normal routine, they're not getting things done that they use to get done.
2. Maybe Matt House is busy interviewing for another job, deep in the interview process, very distracted by it. Perhaps even travel mid week for interviews with other teams?
3. Burn out. It happens in every industry to mid-leve/high-level professionals. Some will just burn out, stop producing, completely lose motivation to do the job. They typically don't admit it openly, so you get serious lapses in performance.