Me too, bob. I get where you're coming from. The way I look at it, a traditional DC has the responsibilities of developing the entire defensive game plan (run and pass) and then calling the plays during the game. This approach could possibly give each of the three areas more dedicated attention. At least that what it appears could be the reasoning. It makes sense if done right.

Papz mentioned earlier the analogy of having too many cooks in the kitchen. Let's assume one cook was working on the main dish, while another was dedicated to the sides, and a third was in charge of the dessert. The meal prep would be far more efficient than a single cook attempting all at the same time.

A trend that’s been in the NFL for decades? Isn’t that kind of an oxymoron? Maybe I’m just a moron.

This was a subject on something I watched this past Fall about coaching history in the NFL. They talked about how staffs were limited back in the 50'-60's and how over the decades since then specialization had began being introduced. What used to be staffs of six or seven had grown into 20 to 30 in recent years. They talked about the trend of specialization continuing in the future with more analytics and in uniform sensors and such and having coaching staff dedicated to these new areas. I believe Sean Payton is involved with a product in this arena called Zebra Technologies.

Saints' use of Zebra Technologies to track players in practice

Me too, bob. I get where you're coming from. The way I look at it, a traditional DC has the responsibilities of developing the entire defensive game plan (run and pass) and then calling the plays during the game. This approach could possibly give each of the three areas more dedicated attention. At least that what it appears could be the reasoning. It makes sense if done right.

Papz mentioned earlier the analogy of having too many cooks in the kitchen. Let's assume one cook was working on the main dish, while another was dedicated to the sides, and a third was in charge of the dessert. The meal prep would be far more efficient than a single cook attempting all at the same time.

So we have a head coach calling the defensive plays and two defensive coordinators and then there’s just Pete “Moving into a different role, never mind we’ll keep him” Carmichael running the offense.

Possibly….I just come from an era where you hire someone to do a job, they are then responsible for there successes and failures….it’s not a village raising an idiot, the person responsible is held accountable, not the group. Too many shoulda, woulda and coulda’s. And every DC has underlings below him/her LB’er, D Line, secondary coaches…and they are the ones dedicated to developing players and game prepping, shouldn’t take a hybrid coaching model for success.