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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 859130" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>I'd say, based on the moves/rumors/statements there are two factors. </p><p></p><p>1) The biggest issue was determined to be the secondary which is why the two DB coaches were fired and it seems like communication/ consistent messaging was thought to be a problem which is why we hired one coach to replace them both. This is where responsibility vs cause makes a difference. As DC obviously Thacker was responsible for the whole defense. However it is possible that the actual cause of the issues in the was at the position coach level. To me that also seems a likely reason why we hired a LB coach to allow Thacker to not have his focus split between both the defense as a whole and a position group. Now, nobody here is likely to have the access to make an informed judgement on whether that was the case or not, but based on the moves I would say that was the thought. </p><p></p><p>2) The talk is that Collins, as a former DC, was going to take a more active hand even be his own DC. Even if this is the case in practice I would still expect him to have a nominal DC. This is because I imagine there are certain aspects of the DC's role that just about anyone could handle but that the HC wouldn't want to have to dedicate time towards. More organizational or structural aspects. As a HC Collins would probably not want to have to spend the time on those type of things. So even if he were making more decisions directly about things from a strategy or play calling standpoint, he'd want a DC to handle the other side of that. And if that is the case it would both make sense to keep someone who knows how Collins likes those type of things, but also make it harder to hire a quality new DC who would likely want more control.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 859130, member: 2299"] I'd say, based on the moves/rumors/statements there are two factors. 1) The biggest issue was determined to be the secondary which is why the two DB coaches were fired and it seems like communication/ consistent messaging was thought to be a problem which is why we hired one coach to replace them both. This is where responsibility vs cause makes a difference. As DC obviously Thacker was responsible for the whole defense. However it is possible that the actual cause of the issues in the was at the position coach level. To me that also seems a likely reason why we hired a LB coach to allow Thacker to not have his focus split between both the defense as a whole and a position group. Now, nobody here is likely to have the access to make an informed judgement on whether that was the case or not, but based on the moves I would say that was the thought. 2) The talk is that Collins, as a former DC, was going to take a more active hand even be his own DC. Even if this is the case in practice I would still expect him to have a nominal DC. This is because I imagine there are certain aspects of the DC's role that just about anyone could handle but that the HC wouldn't want to have to dedicate time towards. More organizational or structural aspects. As a HC Collins would probably not want to have to spend the time on those type of things. So even if he were making more decisions directly about things from a strategy or play calling standpoint, he'd want a DC to handle the other side of that. And if that is the case it would both make sense to keep someone who knows how Collins likes those type of things, but also make it harder to hire a quality new DC who would likely want more control. [/QUOTE]
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