re: My simple explanation for poor pass defense - things are looking up

I too am very excited to have Money Mills back, but I think we should seriously temper our expectations. I swear we see it in every thread about our defense. We've been weak on pass coverage, but Mills will come save the day. He's only one player who hasn't played a minute of real game time in 2015. Yes he's a veteran, so hopefully he finds his rhythm early, but we can't imagine he'll play a whole lot Saturday.

It's going to depend on people stepping up to the challenge, which I think we will do. It's true that we play up/down to our opponents most of the time, and I think we will be hungrier than we've seen this year. We will dominate possession and we will shut down their run game. We just need a few of our weaker links to grow and earn their place (some of these DB's to make big plays on third down).

Our corners have been playing physical.

In man coverage, it's our safeties & LBs that seem to not be communicating. RB's & TE's are finding too many holes in our D.

Dwayne Thomas needs to spend more time covering the bench.

For some reason, Jamal Adams has not been the enforcer he was last year.

Hopefully all of this will improve w/ reps.