I honestly think that's one of the reasons we brought Vance in: we wanted to allocate a bunch of resources to the offense and be adequate with the defensive personnel we had in place. In that first draft he got a corner and DL prospect and both have turned out to be pretty solid. That added to a good group of veterans in Peterson and Budda.
Instead Keim decided he'd get tricky and draft even more positionless defensive players -- first Simmons and then Collins. This was after getting disappointing results with Deone Bucannon and Haason Reddick. So now Vance is stuck with these guys he didn't want or need but is expected to play.
The defense has been the best part of this team every year Vance has been here. I don't understand why he gets the grief he does. People want to get three INTs a game and hold opponents to 0.5 YPC. That's not how the NFL works anymore.
I think Keim made some poor choices yes but I also think we've all seen it week after week since Vance got here. Chandler Jones in coverage repeatedly, Fotu trying to contain the edge. The offense IMO was the strength of this team last year until D Hop got hurt.
this year hard to say, the rams could have easily been up 21-0 or even more in the first half they had a dropped TD and several other self inflicted wounds that had nothing to do with our defense stopping them. I agree Vance did a good job of changing things up in the 2nd half but in the first part of that game they just boatraced us, embarassed us on defense.
My point is I am not sure it matters who we give Vance I think his system confuses players. hard to judge him in Denver he was the HC and had no QB but their defense gave up 382 and 349 points the 2 years he was teh HC, and 318 under Fangio still without a QB(Flacco started half the games). In Miami before and after they were about the same they didn't get better or worse his 2 years as DC there. Everywhere he's been the complaint has been the same his system is too complex. You get too many situations where if you don't get to the QB you have a total mismatch in coverage because of his complex blitzes. Not saying he's had elite talent here and the team has improved every year but there's just too many instances where we look completely outcoached in matchups, the first half of the Rams game and the first half of the Chiefs game being perfect examples.
And again unless someone made him do it, he created a position for Simmons and made him the playcaller on defense and after ONE GAME, he abandoned all that. While it's good he can admit he was wrong about Simmons(apparently) how could he be that wrong about a kid he coached for 2 years?
