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I think it would be interesting to look back to see how the hell Hafley was able to make it all work...

I'm reasonably sure Coombs was doomed (probably at least partially because he and LJ had been on the staff together previously) from the start. That's not to say he might not have had issues anyway, but I don't think there's any way it could have worked.
 
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ochre said:
I think it would be interesting to look back to see how the hell Hafley was able to make it all work...

I'm reasonably sure Coombs was doomed (probably at least partially because he and LJ had been on the staff together previously) from the start. That's not to say he might not have had issues anyway, but I don't think there's any way it could have worked.
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Hafley gets a lot of credit for not crashing the race car. With the best DE/CB combo of the decade, he let the DL do its thing, didn't have to blitz much, and did a great job improving the DBs and mixing in zone. In a cursed game against Clemson, the defense was good 95% of the time, but you started to see some of the holes in the defense. The LBs outside of Werner were a liability, the back 7 took some bad angles and they didn't have an answer for losing Wade and Young being negated (either by double team or egregious hands to the face penalties jamming his head backwards). That happens against elite teams, though. The problem was the other 5% of the game was spent giving up the easiest 95 yard drive I can remember.

What I'm getting at is Hafley was a good DC and teacher that didn't exactly do anything special other than let Chase wreck stuff and keep everything in front of the DBs. If he tried to use that style today without a pressure cheat code, they'd get picked apart.
 
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1926Buckeyes said:
Hafley gets a lot of credit for not crashing the race car. With the best DE/CB combo of the decade, he let the DL do its thing, didn't have to blitz much, and did a great job improving the DBs and mixing in zone. In a cursed game against Clemson, the defense was good 95% of the time, but you started to see some of the holes in the defense. The LBs outside of Werner were a liability, the back 7 took some bad angles and they didn't have an answer for losing Wade and Young being negated (either by double team or egregious hands to the face penalties jamming his head backwards). That happens against elite teams, though. The problem was the other 5% of the game was spent giving up the easiest 95 yard drive I can remember.

What I'm getting at is Hafley was a good DC and teacher that didn't exactly do anything special other than let Chase wreck stuff and keep everything in front of the DBs. If he tried to use that style today without a pressure cheat code, they'd get picked apart.
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Don't you dare call Malik Harrison a liability. Browning was playing a bit out of position though, despite being pretty effective (another one you can thank LJ for btw). Hilliard should have played more in 2019.
 
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