The Tampa 2 cancer we dealt with for years was counter-productive.
We routinely passed on defensive lineman because Rod had a "go along to get along" shtick that involved going along with the idea that we could hand him crap and he'd turn it into chicken salad along the defensive line, while we funneled resources elsewhere. And when we finally spend a 1st rounder on a d-lineman, he picks one who he himself would give up on almost immediately. And follows it up by us picking a d-linemen with our top pick again shortly after that, only for it to again be someone he can't work with.
We neglected the pass-rush talent and the pass-coverage talent while fetishizing the linebacker position, far and away the easiest position to fill in this 4-3 defense.
But, you know, at least we screwed ourselves for the prize of having an old, exposed, irrelevant defensive scheme that really only worked with generational talent anyway.
