I think St. Juste was better the season before Whitt was here, too. And I said that this off season let alone after his supposed resurgence in LA.
Like I've been saying this off season, I am not sold on Whitt. I explained it deeper in the defense thread. I am not out on him either. I'll give it time.
I really thought I replied to this, but now I can't find it anywhere.
So either this is a re-has of something I said or I dreamed a post.
Steven Haglund, a co-host of theGuilty as Charged podcast, was on Galdi, and Galdi asked him how BSJ was doing. And what he said was basically:
1. BSJ doesn't start, he only plays in certain packages.
2. When he does play, they are almost always in cover-3, and BSJ isn't asked to do much.
3. When he played in pre-season, it didn't look great.
The problem we had for the last 2 years, which is mostly Ron's fault, is we had no other options but to ask BSJ to be something he is incapable of being. And what Whitt and Quinn want to do on defense, which is lock up on the outside, bring pressure and get turnovers, BSJ just can't do. And I think he was asked to do it, and couldn't. Now, could they have adjusted the defense to do more things he could do? Maybe, and he might have looked better.
Anyway, I don't think he's really good.
I really don't know where that post I wrote went. I even looked up the DB coach, it's Tommy Donatell. And then I went to go look for a Quinn/Whitt/Peters connection, and I couldn't find an obvious one. He was in Seattle from 2017-2020, but Quinn was gone by then. I don't see overlaps with Whitt or Peters. So I don't know if there was a connection. He wasn't a Ron Rivera "I will only hire people who I know regardless of competence" hire. Maybe Tommy is a problem, maybe not, tough to say, but the DBs certainly aren't communicating or playing well, and he is the first in line of the coaches for that group.
EDIT: I found the post, it was in the all things defense thread. So you can ignore much of the same stuff I had written there.
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