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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
There was a phrase uttered by a wise man who once posted here a lot (and still does, occasionally):
Better than bad does not = good.
There is precious little evidence that his scheme is better suited to stop a spread, especially since you keep conflating his old base defense with the common base defense run in the modern game.
And you know how I know you're just rehashing shit?
Bob Sutton's most common base defense in 2017 was basically the Packers' Nitro Package: 3 S and 3 CB. He wasn't even running the old Rex Ryan D the vast, vast majority of the time.
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Unknown, young, and exciting doesn’t = good either
But you’re either missing my point entirely or just ignoring it. It doesn’t really matter who we hired because at the end of the day, no DC is going to have success without the talent. The bottom line is, if we give Spags the talent, he can get this defense to at least be average which is all we really need.
Hewwit and certainly Pagano would not have succeeded without talent either. You understand that, right?
Also, I’m fully aware that the 3-4 was hardly the base defense anymore.
What I’m referring to is all the man coverage, OLB’s dropping back too often (though that hasn’t been as big of a problem recently), the way his defense concedes to the run so often, etc. A lot of those things come from the 3-4 Ryan background, not that it’s an exact replica, but the fingerprints are there.
All that man coverage is good when you have the talent at all levels, but this scheme just isn’t going to work in today’s NFL without elite talent.