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Originally Posted by The Franchise
It doesn’t come down to just who you play. It was a completely new defensive scheme with a new defensive coordinator and mostly new players. That shit takes time to gel. Players and coaches will tell you that exact same thing. The Titans loss was the game that flipped the switch with this defense. Pennel and Suggs were added and the defense started playing differently. Plus Clark wasn’t anywhere close to 100% in the beginning of the season and we had a rookie FS learning as he was playing.
Are we the 85 Bears? No but this defense is good enough to get some stops and give the ball back to the offense. That’s all it takes to win games.
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I think the Texans game is what flipped the switch, combined with the defense losing its safety net for a few weeks when Mahomes went down.
They knew they HAD to step it up. The Texans game brought into sharp focus HOW they had to do it (by trusting their teammates and playing the scheme). Then with the Packers and Vikings games they proved they
could.
The Titans game was a weird one-off in the middle, IMO. Things had already changed substantially by then.