If You're a Game Re-Watcher

Check out the difference between our first and second half defensive philosophies. In the first half, we played a very run-focused defense. Lots of base personnel and then both safeties really close to the line of scrimmage. (They may have been just deep enough that you could say they weren't truly in the box, but they were close.)  One CB usually played deep middle. This worked.  Not every play (stop me if you've heard this before), but "if you take away the one big run" in the first half, our guys were actually pretty good. In the second half, once we got the big lead, we changed what we were doing.  Our safeties started playing back, we took linebackers off the field, and we tried to play coverages inside with (primarily) our $10 million slot corner.  This gutted a run defense that really needs all the help it can get. You saw the result. This gets to a larger problem.  Lots of people -- me included -- have been trying to figure out why we don't just sol...