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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 776624" data-attributes="member: 12283">Any time you have a struggling unit, it’s bound to be the cause of some combination of talent and scheme. Some cases tilt more heavily one way, and some the other. One tell tale sign to me that the Packers’ defensive issues have been more attributable to scheme than talent (more, not totally), is that it seems one can identify a strangely large number of good individual players over the seasons for a unit that has struggled so mightily. Clark, Daniels, Matthews, Perry, Peppers, Martinez, Shields, Hayward, Clinton-Dix, Burnett, etc. Several above average players, most of whom played together. Certainly there have also been some talent deficiencies, but most units in the league have some weaker spots that have to be made up. The bottom line to me is that latter day Capers was coaching a unit that amounted to less than the sum of its parts, which is essentially the opposite of what a coordinator is paid to do.If you look at the talent on Pettine’s defenses essentially everywhere he’s been, I think you’ll agree that he has tended to get more out of the unit as a whole than one would expect from that particular group of players.</blockquote>

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