Henry posted:Grave Digger posted:Personally I think the more complex you can be on defense the better. You have to have the right guys in place though who understand what you're doing and can execute. That's the biggest reason why 2010 worked, Nick Collins, Woodson, Williams, CM, Pickett, Raji, Jenkins, Bishop, and Hawk. all understood their jobs and got it done. There weren't a lot of blow assignments despite executing a pretty complex defense that allowed guys like Raji to be in a position to make a Pick 6...that's craziness to drop a 330 pounder into coverage. Seattle's defense is probably easy to figure out, but knowing what the defense is doing and beating it aren't the same which is why Seattle has been so dominant...their 11 are so good that you will probably lose one or multiple 1on1's on any given snap.
Just a thought but I really wonder if this equates to better success in FA? Just bring in guys with a motor and keep it simple.
Another thought that struck me. Injuries. How many injuries are avoided when guys aren't flopping around trying to make up for getting burned or shutdown in a scheme they don't fully understand or is just plain bad? Of course there's the overall physicality of the game but if you've got a player who owns his part of the turf and is ready to pop anything that comes into it then he isn't positioning himself wrong and reacts at the right time.
Another thing I'll be watching over the next couple years.
