Could the hesitancy to implement more advanced and exotic schemes on defense be a product of the defense being as new as it is? The team is fielding a lot of Young players and a lot of players who haven’t played together before, they are still building chemistry as well as establishing good habits. With so much new shit going on, could the more vanilla approach we’ve seen so far be in service of not making the process more complicated than it already is? Wu’s snap count seems like it could be somewhat of a microcosm of this. Like, obviously Woods expects to put far more on his plate in order to utilize his skillset, but at this point it’s more sensible to bring him along slowly as the team gradualy unpacks and expands the defense.
I kinda expected the defense to look inconsistent and shaky to start the season, and so far that has born out. They held the Chiefs to, what, 2 scores in the first half? The Texans managed 7 points the entire second half. That’s obviously not the entire story, but I do think it sort of illustrates how this a defense that is very much a work in progress