re: Potential new Defensive Coordinator?

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If you truly believe dominant DLs creste great defense and seeing how improved our DL is, are you willing to give Snyder 1 more year? I'm not saying I agree/disagree with DL being the heart of the D, just curious.

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I'm in the camp that tends to err on the side of allowing a coaching staff to establish their culture over multiple years, for better or for worse. In my humble opinion, we've seen Snyder's defense be solid enough to net us wins/keep us in games with enough senior buy-in and leadership. Thanks to off-the field troubles, graduations/early departures, and general youth, we haven't had that in the past two seasons. Maybe that shows he's not what we need to take advantage of our talent, or maybe he needs a year of actual continuity for it to gel as a complete unit, but I say give him the rest of this year and the start of 2015.

And that better be a damn short leash. This ain't the year for a midseason ouster. Next season, though, all bets are off.