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Originally Posted by popanot
As I said before, Kubiak is either too stubborn to make a change, afraid to make a difficult change, or, he doesn't have the confidence that Bush or anyone else will be any better than Smith. My assumption is the latter and Bush wasn't all he was cracked up to be. .
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I'm not convinced that just elevating Bush would make that big of a difference. While I don't like the way the defense has been run there are just as many examples of players being in a position to make a play and not doing it as there are WTF kind of defense are we running moments. That's one of the reasons I brought up Hoke not doing a good enough job of improving the secondary. While we are at it even Demeco's play seems to have fallen off. His best asset was always how quickly he read and reacted to the play. This year he just seems hesitant. Maybe it's because he's battling injuries (one reason I'm warming to the idea of moving him to WLB where he's not caught up in as much trash, although I like Adibi in that spot too). It could also be a symptom of the system (whatever that it is) that Smith is trying to run....or that Demeco doesn't believe in it.
I think Bush would likely keep much of the staff in place even if he was retained next year. I think that if they are going to make a change there needs to be a complete overhaul in the off season. Of course, any change just leads to the built in excuse of learning a new system.
I think a new DC is needed, but there's not much reason to do it now IMO other than to placate the fans.