re: Paul Rhoads

Honestly, I have no idea he is a good DC or not because Bert had a clear trend of hampering his coordinators. As a cornerbacks coach, he seemed legit though, he developed an NFL type corner for us (even though he got hurt) and he had s some decent safeties when they weren't blowing assignments.

The real problem I think lied in the fact that we had no real speed on defense since basically 2014. Bert and his idiot strength coach were more worried about how much weight they could Pack on players and how many pounds the kids could box squat than how fast or explosive they were.

Rhoads did not blitz at all (a trend of Bert defenses), but when he did we got some pressure. I think he's a solid coach, but not in the Saban league of defensive mindset, but not many are. He also had essentially no talent to work with on defense.