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The team's excessive penalties and sloppy play on both sides of the ball is a player culture issue. The root was rotten, the trunk is rotten and the branches are rotten. Using another metaphor, the mold is pervasive and the whole thing is overdue to be burned down for a fresh start.
Poorly coached by a terrible staff whose head coach had quit. That’s what you saw. RBs as an example were anything but sloppy. All year, how many fumbles did Davis, Pierce and Wright have? I’ll give Knox that.
If this staff turns out to be as good as we’re hoping, watch how many names we’d all but buried that are suddenly better next year. Not saying that there aren’t some maturity issues and things to be cleaned up. But it’s not some massive rebuild. Nor is/was the class. We need to change some attitudes, add more talent to the roster, then coach them up.