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Originally Posted by RunKC
One thing I will give credit to Spags for is he has delivered when he has actual talent on his team.
Everybody loves Wade Phillips, but his defenses were very meh last year and his last season in Denver when he didn’t have an over abundance of talent.
If we can get a solid ILB and add to the secondary, we should be able to be roughly average on defense.
I still contend that coaching made this defense far worse than it actually was.
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I've made similar points. Also-everyone wants to just quote average stats without looking at circumstances.
For instance, at each stop, Spagnuolo arrives to varying levels of disarray, which you can see by looking at the previous year's statistics. Each time, he builds a solid defense that performs much better, usually within a year.
the outliers being St. Louis, in which I wouldn't claim he did a great job, although he was head coach, and 2012 Saints, which was a uniquely weird and screwed up situation.
so there are some poor seasons, but there is also a tendency towards rebuilding not great defenses into pretty good ones, and very quickly.
So, if he's the hire, I think there's reason for optimism. This idea that he's just a Reid buddy is lazy and not a reasonable conclusion when you consider all of the facts.
While I'd love an up and comer like Richard or Hewitt, I DO prefer ditching the 3-4 for personnel reasons and I understand that with Reid's style he might prefer someone with full DC experience as he spends almost all of his time on the offense.