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This is a great topic. I’m not an X and O guru but it’s been this way for a while. It was the same with Silvera though LT is more talentedSteele is very choice with his words so it's easy to miss but in his presser where when reporters we're fishing for praise he basically said last year defense had LT freestyling and penetrating and some of those habits take time to die.. he is a young player and they are gonna coach him up, lots of room to grow..
Some plays you say no no no but then he gets tackle for loss and it's a a"splash play" then he gets out of gap and running back hits cut back for big gain..
It was just something I saw the more I rewatched and then Lances breakdowns really helped understand what was going on
We see these guys randomly make a huge play and we get excited, but then we wonder why they disappear during stretches. I don’t want to make broad sweeping generalizations but a lot of times I saw just them not doing what we needed. So a good OC could just scheme around a DL that’s aggressive but undisciplined
One thing I really liked about Saturday was our DL played aggressive but weren’t getting caught up, either in the play or the environment. It does still happen sure, I think even the most disciplined teams do it, but so far I’m seeing just a much better vibe from the DL than we’ve seen for a while, even though we had some amazing talent that could make huge plays in the past
Hopefully that makes some sense haha