No, not blaming the defense, but lots of people want to blame Barry for the defense not being EVEN better. I'm just noting that the defense would be EVEN better if the players weren't dropping so many INTs that hit their hands.
Barry needs at least another dominant DT to make this scheme work to full effect, but he's correctly giving the DBs more help and more opportunities on the backend.
But this defense will continue to go up and down based on opponents OLs without more DL talent improvement (I was hoping, thinking Wyatt would break out, but hasn't seemed to happen as much as I was hoping).
I felt like the defense in 2021 really shut the door on a number of opponents. In 2022, I feel like their was in fighting between Joe Barry and Jerry Gray and the players, especially the DBs took Gray's side and they were not on the same.page, at least not as much as they should of been and that cost the team early.
But on offense, it's simply the scheme needs a lot of talented blocking and so Gute has used a lot of draft resources on OL and TEs and for whatever reason, they have not ended in successful selection.
To keep the list short, all of Gute's 3rd round selections... Myers and Newman. Also it doesn't help that Bakhtiari and Jenkins aren't playing up to their salary.
Originally Posted by: beast