I think it is fair to say that as a consequence of the offense we ran, and the practice time demanded to get it right, the defense was prevented from getting the kind of looks they needed to be most successful. The line of distinction for me in this whole discussion has been that CPJ clearly did not intend to hurt the defense, but likely did as a consequence of his management of practice time. Additionally, I wouldn't be surprised to hear there were guys he kept on the O who might have believed they could have helped our team (or had more snaps) by being on the D side of the ball. I just don't see him holding kids he thought could help the team more by being on the D.
I don't, for a moment, believe he ever intentionally instructed the D Staff to do anything other than what he believed we needed to win. I can't know all the information he had at any given point when he may have limited installs, pushed for slow and steady bleeding against quick hit gamble defense or whatever else. I can; however, guarantee he did everything he could to win.
That said, I think there is a balance with any team. My suspicion is that CGC uses his organized chaos concepts of running tons of extra snaps to mitigate the idea that a Defense needs to see X play from the Offense and the Offense might need to see Y play from the defense and you can't always say that X = Y. That said, all actions have consequences and one could argue that the use of the throw as many snaps as we can at the kids will prevent them from being able ot get as hands-on teaching opportunities as a more steady pace at practice might afford.
The proof will be in the pudding for this staff over the coming months, but I am liking what we have seen so far (from coaches, players and all the commentary from past players / connected friends of the program.
I am excited for the spring game, to see the guys switching roles and schemes being installed, and look forward to the coming season as well.
