Minnesota Snowflakes: The Defense

he we appear to be with Faustian and Green. Can't say the same for Metellus (though maybe he's a Durkin recruit) or that freshmen from Alabama (name escapes me). Just saying its a trend I hope we continue.

The lengths people will go to to complain about this defense are astonishing. The safeties: they are not liabilities in coverage. Everybody gets beat sometimes. That's football. We are just so spoiled, we get angry about every completed pass. If someone wants to whine about busted assignments (a product of youth; 2 of our 3 safeties are second year players), that can be a legitimate gripe. Other legitimate gripes are "Sometimes Kinnell misses tough tackles in space" or "Metellus isn't Jourdan Lewis in man coverage." But come on, the safeties are B or B+ players who Don Brown puts a TON of responsibility on. They are the guys who are responsible for finding and filling the empty space in the run game, reacting and adjusting to all presnap motions, and oh yeah, covering man to man. Putting that much responsibility on the safeties is the very thing that allows Don Brown to be a crazy mad scientist/evil wizard with the front 7. Safeties have been between good and very good all year. That looks disappointing only when compared to the (excellent) corners and LBs and the (elite) DLine. I know we long for Boring Safeties, but there is no place in this defense for a safety whose only job is "don't turn a 20 yard play into a long touchdown."