New Look Defense

[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

IMO Redskins played single gap out of necessity. We did not have strong enough DL that could play 2 gap successfully. We could not play 2 gap last year.
We went into last season with one of the worst interior D-lines ever.
We came out of training camp with freaking Kedric Goldston at 301 pounds as our starting NT. I knew that day we were not making the playoffs.

But I also got the feeling that we didn't have explosive enough DLs to play a 1 gap system efficiently... It was my understanding that was one reason we got exposed that much against the run.