Defensive Line Coach let go

GreasyGopher · 2025-12-06T11:45:30-0600

btowngopher said:
Yeah I’m fine with the move. I wasn’t calling for his head or anything, but a lot takes place behind the scenes that leads to these decisions, not just what we see on the field.

I think there are more to the defensive issues than the DL coach but this is a start.

kg21 · 2025-12-06T11:54:03-0600

GreasyGopher said:
But there were also a significant number of games where the opposing RB wasn’t getting touched until 3-4 yards downfield. The DL was getting blown off the ball frequently on running plays.

Additionally, the pressure wasn’t consistent as they had something like 16 of those sacks in two games.

This d-line was hot garbage.

minnyrules11 · 2025-12-06T11:55:12-0600

Bring back Winston as D Line coach, Rossi as a consultant.

GreasyGopher · 2025-12-06T11:59:09-0600

kg21 said:
This d-line was hot garbage.

Fix that unit, get the secondary to cover somebody and they probably have a good defense again.

The second group probably comes down to coaching too. Many players in the secondary looked confused most of the year.

mngg11 · 2025-12-06T12:25:10-0600

GophersInIowa said:

On3 = garbage

btowngopher · 2025-12-06T12:43:33-0600

GreasyGopher said:
Fix that unit, get the secondary to cover somebody and they probably have a good defense again.

The second group probably comes down to coaching too. Many players in the secondary looked confused most of the year.

The secondary coaches have pretty good track records though.

GreasyGopher · 2025-12-06T13:22:18-0600

btowngopher said:
The secondary coaches have pretty good track records though.

I think that improvement needs to come from the DC. Simplify the scheme or figure out a better way to teach the scheme to the players.

Word · 2025-12-06T13:25:34-0600

minnyrules11 said:
Bring back Winston as D Line coach, Rossi as a consultant.

Rossi is staying at MSU.

Spaulding!No! · 2025-12-06T13:30:11-0600

GreasyGopher said:
This dismissal just completes the wet dream for the MN media. They got to negatively cover a bad unit all season and now get to provide negative coverage when the leader of that unit is dismissed.

Depends if someone is having a combo platter of gored ox, as well. It is a distinction without a difference except Cignetti is great and the Bears are The top of the NFC.

Panthadad2 · 2025-12-06T16:17:44-0600

It seems like the D Line was caught between jumping gaps for potential TFOLs or being gap disciplined and keeping the opposing O Line off the linebackers...and not really accomplishing either in some games. Could it have been that? Or something else that made him unpalatable?

Defensive Line Coach let go

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