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My theory: His defensive scheme, which is based on.. by BeastOfBourbon

the Rex Ryan model, has become woefully obsolete, having been deciphered and eviscerated by offensive coordinators at the college and NFL levels alike. As we saw repeatedly at Notre Dame, there are some basic concepts that are fundamentally unsound and can be easily exploited, especially in lining up against the run.

But it’s also been exposed in the passing game. Initially, Ryan had some real success pressuring and confusing QBs, who were mainly taking deeper drops and running for their lives against the exotic and unfamiliar blitz packages that Ryan was dialing up. But as the shift to shorter drops and quicker timing patterns has taken hold, the scheme has proven increasingly vulnerable, as those blitzes now routinely fail to get home and the back of the defense is left to burn.

And to top it all off, it’s notoriously complicated and impedes players from being decisive and playing fast.

Why anyone would hire VanGorder at this point is a mystery. Yet, after that disastrous stint at Louisville last year, he has somehow resurfaced as DC at Bowling Green. Wow.