We tried the ISU 3/8 cloud last year for about half a season before it was ditched in favor or Orlando’s more aggressive system. If there is a system. And that bothers me a bit. Why are we trying to force something else on our DC. Doesn’t he have a base philosophy from which we can adapt and derive a viable defense each season?
ISU’s defense gives Herman trouble as an OC by his own admission, but that’s no reason to force it on the DC.
Lets be honest, we f’ing stumbled into the Lightening package in 2017. Once we found the people to run it our defense was quite good. Before and after it’s been a mixed bag with no shortage general spread administered beatings.
With regard to your LB comment it’s been noted that Orlando picks his 3-4 guys at that position each year, and it’s seldom that anyone else sees the field. Thats fine and dandy when you’ve got proven studs, but less so when you’re seeking them.
Orlando has some bad habits with regard to that, his random blitz generator and identifying his best personnel on a year to year basis. Part of that is Herman's best 11 philosophy which is flawed in my opinion, and the other part is our infatuation with practice warriors which I also think is flawed. They’re both defensible philosophies on the surface, but I want the best personnel package and game day players on the field against live competition. And that’s not necessarily your best 11 defenders or mid week practicers.
I suspect strongly that Brown and Overshown will assert themselves near the LOS with BJ’s absence, and we’ll maybe figure out to let our safeties spend more time being safeties instead of box enforcers while asking our box enforcers to be safeties. Wild shit like that.