Off-season moves

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

Defensively the team's biggest weakness to me is at LB. I suppose they don't really stack up there, either. Franklin and Speed should both be gone, play Carlies and Harrison if you need to. Olubi is an option as well, or draft someone.

That said, yes, for the most part, I feel like the defense is better than what the numbers indicate, in large part because in over half of the games, the offense was putting the defense in terrible spots. How many games did opponents have 2:1 TOP advantage this year? Some of that was on the defense, more of it was on the offense having far too many 3 and outs and far too little success. Also I agree with most here that Bradley's scheme is not the best at maximizing the skillsets of our players. I think with a different DC, the same defenders would perform better.

Agree that both Bradley and the LBs suck and should be replaced. The secondary is definitely below average and needs multiple upgrades. The DL is really good on paper but really underachieved this year. At the very least we need to bring in better depth at DT, b/c when either Defo and Grover are not in the game it becomes a shit show.

And yes in some games the O didn't do the D any favors, but in our D's worst performances this year that wasn't the case. In fact of the 5 games I listed we won TOP in 4 of them, and the O rarely put the D in a bad position in those games as well. For instance the shortest TD drive the Giants (who scored the most against us in their last 9 seasons BTW) was 56 yards, and 4 of their 5 TDs were all 70 yards.