In my opinion, it's because the offense has ran pretty much the same scheme while Shanny's been here... ZBS, moving or rolling pockets, mis-direction, and scripted series to get the defense's tendencies to know what to counter with, and when. No question, our players on the o side of the ball have improved, with perhaps RB at least holding their own.
Now, the d... How many coordinators do you go through before you start looking at the talent? We got rid of the guy who had the best defense in the Shanny years (Coyer), but he was forced to do what he did without a good pass rush. Our LB's now as a group are not as good as who we had back then. We've not yet replaced Al, DJ was no worse than Boss at SAM, maybe better, and Gold was really pretty good on his first go-round here. Safety is still an issue, and we are still struggling for a good nickel CB. JW will hopefully improve.
We've taken care of the LOS on the offense's side of the ball, and look at the way we can (or should) score now. Can anyone tell me that Slowik has one of the better dlines in the game now? Our CB blitzes work, but I don't want to do that very often. When it's a "standard blitz", using LB's, we don't get there very much at all. Now we're about 7th or 8th best in the league in sacks right now, but we don't have ANY consistency there. Guess it's time to get another DC...
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