re: Why the bad defense?

A combo of bad coaching with bad talent. Talent hurt by injuries. Losing jk at cb. Losing brooks at safety. I don’t think speights ever recovered fully from his injury that kept him out all spring. Coaches got so scared with the talent that they completely went so basic it was bad. In today’s football how many teams are playing with 2 slow mlb and then on top of that putting another lber as your nickel. Yes Perkins is special, but we are playing a true 4-3 which you hardly see anymore. Teams don’t go 3 lbers with 4 down as much as we do in today’s football. This past game was actually the most true nickel I saw us play. A lber would come out in passing downs and Toviano or stamps would come in and move Sage to the slot cb. We hadn’t done that much all season.