re: A thought concerning the defensive scheme...

Honestly the biggest thing we are lacking is a Patrick Peterson, Mo Claiborne, or Tharold Simon. I know that Simon is nowhere as good as the other two and he catches alot of hell for giving up big plays last year, but he did a good job of taking away one side of the field. When he got beat (and that happened more often for him than for the other 2, which is why we noticed) he was all alone on an island. PP7 and Mo very rarely got beat but were isolated on the number 1 receivers every single week.

Since we have always had that one side of the field on 1 on 1 coverage, we had an extra man who could just drift in the nickle and create havoc (TM7, Brooks). Now we can't have a drifter like that because we don't have anybody we can trust on the island. We have to have that extra man in zone coverage helping out.