Lack of vision as far as team building has been a problem since Shad took over as owner. We all bemoaned Jack Del Rio and his "Vanilla" offense and defense, but at least back then we knew what we wanted to do, how we wanted to do it, and what kind of players we needed to execute it. "Run the Ball, Stop the Run, win the turnover battle, get 1 big spark play to change momentum" and in pursuit of greater we spurned the good. And since then we have suffered for it. I really didn't agree with firing him back then, thought he was scapegoated a bit.

The reality is that instead of trying to copycat the success of other teams (Gus Bradley & the Seattle system; bringing back Coughlin to recreate his SB success with the Giants etc.) lets just try and be original and innovative with the talent we have. If you chase what other teams do you'll never do it as successfully and by the point you get good enough at it, the book is already out on how to stop it.

We need to commit to a 3-4 Defense, and pay up (Free agency $$ or trade draft picks) to get good or at least solid players at the key positions.

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