Honestly, I just listened to Heatherman speak and went back to watch a bunch of those plays he cited off memory (psycho). I’m not picking up the doom and despair of 2024.
…he’s right? On a lot of it. Over-pursuit, falling for eye-candy, too-aggressive on the front 7 (mostly our LBs) while soft on the back end.
At the end of the day, the results aren’t good enough and everything will funnel back to the person in charge. His swarm mentality (which is nothing like Guidry) will lead to violent play (which conversely, we’ll have to live with some over-pursuit, missed tackles, etc).
I’m not sure if he doesn’t trust our corners to play man. Even if so, we have to mix up our secondary and back end looks more, or rotate a more balanced LB out there with Toure or Smith.
But I don’t think certain play calls were as bad as made it on here (surprise). Big game for the defense Saturday.