I'll say this and all you people that dissect the colors of the rainbow to figure out what each color means in relation to football can think about it for a second. Last year's defense wasn't getting the plays in quick enough to actually get set in enough time to see what was going on. You might not think that matters, but if you're a few steps in the wrong gap, you might as well as be standing on the sidelines, not to mention, for a LB to have any success, whatsoever, his DL has to be able to push the pocket (the past four years our DL has been a read and react DL...meaning, stalemate then shuck the lineman to get to the ball. That's the wrong way to do it if you have a weak DL and we had a very weak DL). You combine the lack of mandatory weight room and conditioning (players not getting stronger) with the DL being taught to read and react (better have strong DL to pull that off) with the plays not coming in from the sidelines quick enough for the Defense to get set you will ALWAYS have a horrible defense.
Remember when I stated that BVG didn't know how to coach against the Spread Offense, it's because his defenses are complicated to learn and a complicated defense trying to go against fast Offenses, the Defense will basically be playing sandlot football because the plays from the sidelines will hardly ever be able to get in, in time.
That's all I'm going to say. Also, look for Frazier to see some playing time at Safety sooner rather than later (around the 2nd or 3rd game)
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