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Originally Posted by DropIt
Capers and his described 'Genious' after last season sure took a shot in the chops this year. His defense was one of the more pourous ive seen in a while from a SB favorite team
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NO question, Capers and the whole defensive unit has struggled. The main spot of dissapointment for me is how they continue to struggle with communication and execution of what is essentially the same defence squad and concept as last year.
But I think Thompson deserves alot of the blame too. He let Jenkins go and banked on an injury prone 2nd year player, Neal, to take up the slack. Without Jenkins (who outside of Matthews was their only real consistant pass rush threat last year), he fails to get any outside LB or DL help in the draft or via Free agency, and he also failed again to get any depth behind Raji (who has been a shade of what he was last year).
Losing Collins to an injury was bad luck but that happens to every team, but the play of the Packers last year really masked alot of the problems this unit had.