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podcast Matthew Collar.

Rolling Solo here also streaming on YouTube so if you guys watching have questions then I

would be happy to answer them and it is an emergency podcast because the

Minnesota Vikings have fired defensive coordinator Ed Donatell.

And I know that this is something that was expected after the way that they performed throughout this season,

but still a significant move for the organization

to change out their defensive coordinator.

Now, I think that the question we asked all season long was is it the defensive coordinator or is it the

players and when we looked at the roster and we went through the names and we went

through past performances it was just very hard to come to the conclusion that the scheme was a fit or the scheme was taught properly or that they were molding things to the players that they had.

And I think that that to me has always been the sign of a good coordinator or a good scheming coach, which is, do you find ways to make all the puzzle pieces fit?

And when you go player by player, there were a few guys who had great seasons. Patrick Peterson certainly did.

Daniel Hunter, of course did after getting used to the system a little bit.

Zadaria Smith's first half of the season and a little bit into the second half was very solid.

In fact, at one point he was leading the whole NFL in pressures, but there were far too many

players that just did not fit at all and Eric Hendricks was really at the top of that list and Harrison Smith was at the top of that list and I think that had the biking started to get it together midway through the season and start to find where they fit, which we have seen in the past. I remember when the Kansas City Chiefs had, I think it was Steve Spagnolo when he first got there and they struggled at first defensively and then as the season went along they got better and better and they started to figure out what everyone did well,

where everyone fit, and then improved

toward the end of the season

and went on to have a Super Bowl caliber defense

to go along with Patrick Mahomes, of course.

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