The point raised isn't so much about the number as much as the replication. One would expect... of course... that your new DC and former passing game coordinator will bring to the table that expertise, though now he will have a broader focus... and... that your new passing coordinator will bring to the table that, though he also apparently will be coaching DBs... which of course is so very different from... your new secondary coach's contribution.
Rite?
Nah. Now look, I'm sure that they're not stupid and have in their heads how they're going to delineate the specific responsibilities, but that's a question that begs to be asked. For now, though, it doesn't fit with any conventional way that NFL teams do this. Perhaps (???)... what we'll see is that there is no single coach responsible only for safeties, another for CBs... but rather there will just be defensive backfield coaches, plural. Or perhaps (???), they're simply waiting to see who else they hire before they assign Smith a specific position group to focus on.
This crap just fall so flat to me... it's cherry picking and hyperbole... every coach that ever got hired is going to have some teaching clips. To make it out as-if this is something exceptional and we're assembling the NFL's preeminent teaching staff is just Pollyanna-ish. I'm confident that self-interest is being pursued and they're going to hire the guys they perceive to be the best teachers... but anyone who's ever hired anyone understands that's a subjective judgment, and it tends toward self-delusion to think you're cornering that market... or even that you're necessarily improving on what you had before. Hoping for the best, but not going to have social media click kings persuade that we have some great reason for encouragement that we've never had before.
