Wearing my optimist hat…
Another thing that may help is that we are no longer the hunted. I think mission #1 for most teams especially in the nfc is stopping the run. Get some size, maybe sacrifice some speed, maybe sacrifice some guys in coverage. The top focus is going to be stopping guys like saquon, Gibbs/montgomery, Henry.
I think spags was way way ahead of the game from that end. His priority was clearly stopping the run and it showed. Our defense was mostly solid despite the blowout.
That plays more to our strengths on offense.
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