Rams Game Defensive GT Review, Dominance everywhere but the scoreboard

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Originally Posted by 53Fan

Good job Tripp. Blache vs Williams. What do you think? Any drop-off?

Any dropoff between the two would be not seen for a few years. Williams was a phenominal evaluator of talent: Rogers, Springs, Carter, Sean Taylor, Landry, Griffin, Golston, Montgomery, Fletcher, McIntosh, Blades, even Doughty to an extent. We'll probably never see that again.

Blache is way more predictable than Williams was, but he doesn't follow set rules in his package selection. If he can lay off the safety blitz more now, we'll be every bit as good with Blache in the near future as we would have been with Grilliams.

I think you have to watch for the diminishing returns with Blache, as his problem in Chicago is that he started out strong, and then ended up just playing with "his guys" when there were more talented, youthful options available. Thus, they changed to the Lovie Smith defense, and those players got into the mix and created the current era Bears defense. Those guys were all Blache-era finds.