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Originally Posted by painekiller
I am guessing here, so take it for what it's worth. If you listened to Kubiak interviews, they have dumbed the defense down, and they did the basic install during OTA and again during minicamp. Why, so the young guys could get up to speed and contribute.
Then Kubiak said they where going to start all over again at training camp, again so the young guys could get where they are playing at full speed, not thinking near as much as in the past.
Look at our roster, especially the defense, we are one of the younger teams. And we are expecting a lot from our draft picks. Teams like the Steelers expect the draft picks to learn a year or two and play special teams.
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Could be. But when I look at the players who will be getting the majority of the snaps on D, there's no reason why we should have to dumb it down. And if there is, I'm concerned. Mario, Amobi, Deljuan, Travis, and Bullman have all been here several years. The only players who are totally new to the line and should be getting a lot of snaps are Smith (who should be able to get up to speed very quickly) and Barwin (who, by the team's own admission, is more of a 3rd down specialist this year and shouldn't have to worry about this stuff as much). As for the linebackers, really no one but Cushing is all that new and needs a lot of time to learn the system. I grant you that we are playing young corners, but I would think that corner is the one position that generally has the least assignment changes when we're blitzing or what-have-you, particularly if we're playing man coverage.
Finally, painekiller, please don't take this as me griping at you. I realize you're just relaying what you heard and I always appreciate your comments.