There are many excuses that have been thrown out there but I think it came down to passion and intellect - or the lack of it which continued the slide.

Vaccaro, Lofton and Hawthorne missing a 100 tackles a game

Coverages blown in the final minutes - vs browns and 49ers.

Teams throwing at Corey white or Patrick Robinson when they needed an easy first down.

Maybe we missed Roman Harper and Malcolm Jenkins impact more than we anticipated.

At the end of it, I don't think scheme hurt us, you never hear Seattle or San Fran say " the scheme is too hard"

In my opinion it was dumb guys playing dumb football, hopefully we've eradicated that by getting rid of a couple players and adding through the draft.