I honestly believe this roster is underachieving.
No, you're not wrong that there is a lot of room to improve at those positions on the field. That said, there is talent on this roster. OL and LB are absolutely talent deficient, but i use this example a lot, and will continue to do so. Austin Reiter was labeled as a castaway here, only to end up winning a SB with the Chiefs. That doesn't mean he was the reason they won, but at a minimum he wasn't enough of a liability to cost them one either. How much of our secondary could we see falling into that same distinction? I have a hard time blaming the secondary when I see Jamin Davis lined up 1 on 1 with Saquan Barkely repeatedly, and gettiing beat. I wonder why no schematic change was made to maybe put Curl on Barkley and see the matchup. We see a handful of times that blitzes worked schematically, and then on 3rd and long we drop into a zone allowing Devito to sit back and survey the field. There's more than one way to prevent a team from getting 13 yards. Defend the ball, or dont even give the QB enough time to let the routes develop that far down the field.
Do we have a secondary good enough to shut down an oppsing offense, single handedly? No i agree, we dont.. there's room for improvement, but I think there is a serious conversation that can be had about them also being set up to basically fail a lot.
We saw our O-Line being asked to block guys 1 on 1 and getting abused. Yes, get frustrated that Leno can't block Thibideau alone... but also.... lets stop asking him to block him alone. If EBs offense is built for him to be able to make that block, we need to address the offense because they clearly weren't in a position to address Leno. Same thing about Davis covering Barkley, Forbes covering A.J. Brown / D.J. Moore. I think there is a level of middle ground that needs to be found. I don't think these units are as bad as they've played at times, but i also agree there is room for improvement.
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