In Reply to: Re: Yup, don't judge him too much on 10+ years ago* posted by TJJ on October 09, 2024 at 12:01:51
Losing Ulbrich was definitely devastating to recruiting and us being LBU (you're speaking of Roquan Smith, if I'm not mistaken). Ulbrich wasn't ready for the job when he was promoted, but could have developed into it if Mora had been a better Coach too - he was an NFL DC and HC, after all and had quite the Defensive pedigree in the NFL, at least from a positions held/job perspective.
And the defense definitely fell off of a cliff after first Spanos, and then he left - the tackling by the end was complete garbage, and that's one thing I do give Kelly credit for turning around rapidly (we still had massive scheme/defensive playcalling issues under Kelly, but tackling got good quick, and didn't fall off)