I don’t care that we played in that the majority of the year and had and great passing numbers in it. With all that individual athletic fast talent on defense, specifically the secondary you don’t limit them by letting them cover an area. I’ve heard a good part of the year that the defense is basically in a simple base zone defense and does nothing exotic or complicated and rely on four getting home. Being that vanilla and not letting your talented corners not handle man most the year took a very good defense chances away from being historic. 

Maybe I’m wrong and Bouye truly gets exposed more and Telvin Smith and Jack gets ate up but, letting good receivers find spots in your defense to sit doesn’t sound aggressive enough for this type of unit. Ramsey is the prototypical man press corner and Bouye could’ve gotten it done also in press man. Games like the Cardinals, Seahawks, Titans, and now the Patriots game also showed we need an upgrade at the safety positions. Both of those dudes were the brunt of our biggest explosive plays given up this year. I just think we need more intelligence and speed back there. 

Basically I wrote all this crap to say we weren’t creative or aggressive enough with all the talent we had on that side of the ball. But what can you expect from a coach who would kneel with 50 seconds left in the half with two timeouts in your pocket?

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