Yea, that is an issue. A bigger one is the teaching process (on-boarding) I watched the Lion- Packer game last night. The Lion defense had a TON of guys, maybe 8 or so out. The new guys came in and played well, no missed assignments, good communication and very little drop off. These were rookies, backups and street free agents.

Our coaches take the better part of a full season to get rookies up to speed. Every year first part of the season the team appears to act like the Keystone Cops for the first few games. Then at critical times we have sporadic "communication" problems with players out of position all year long. We hear every week about the good practices they had and progress they made during the week. Problem is it doesn't show up on the field. Now it would appear we are employing players with learning disabilities or a teaching process that is less than effective in my opinion.

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