I'm not an advocate for changing much regarding secondary personnel. Most of the big stuff is from blown communication, not lack of ability. When things work the way they're supposed to, the corner play is quite good. The problem is that these guys are all young, even the ones with some experience, and there's very little rapport established at the moment. Constantly screwing with the guys and their positioning is only going to make that worst. If anything, they need to decrease the rotation and let people figure things out, especially when you're entering a three game stretch where, knock on wood, you can afford to do that.
You can talk about the talent that left after last season all you want but the biggest thing we lost was having the same personnel consistently. You can play the platooning is a positive thing card all you want to but all it does is decrease the number of extremely valuable reps for the best players and cause situations where they all overthink things out of fear of being swapped out. I'm sure all of the corners get along and support each other but at the end of the day all of these guys want to be on the field and if you're trying to say you have 5 starting corners or whatever BS, you're just putting yourself in a situation where they're all passive out of fear of losing playing time.
What I think we're seeing is the secondary becoming a victim of its own success in the sense that they're worried about the turnover and want to get more guys involved so that if 2 or 3 leave after this year, they have guys coming off the bench with experience. That's all well and good but you don't put yourself in a position of being an elite defense/team if you go that route.
And yes, I understand that the rotation at DL works, but that's a completely different animal.
