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Any chance Luke un-retires?

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If so, would it change your perception of this defense? I feel like we got used to having our secondary be our weakness as long as we had a stout DL and LBs. This year only our DL seems to be solid but glaring holes at other two levels.  If Luke was still on the team as a field genera alongside Shaql, I feel like this defense would be OK, good enough to not get blown out each game.

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6 minutes ago, NAS said:

If so, would it change your perception of this defense? I feel like we got used to having our secondary be our weakness as long as we had a stout DL and LBs. This year only our DL seems to be solid but glaring holes at other two levels.  If Luke was still on the team as a field genera alongside Shaql, I feel like this defense would be OK, good enough to not get blown out each game.

Possibly, but I think the odds of that happening are very long indeed. Our secondary looked pretty bad last year even with Bradberry and Luke on the field, so not sure Luke coming back would keep our heads above water by itself. As much as I hate it for our team, I think Luke made the right decision for himself, and I hope that he stand by it. With all of his knowledge and abilities I will be shocked if he does not find coaching success, and I think with his injury history that's the best path for him now. I just hope that success comes with us.

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Just now, 1of10Charnatives said:

Possibly, but I think the odds of that happening are very long indeed. Our secondary looked pretty bad last year even with Bradberry and Luke on the field, so not sure Luke coming back would keep our heads above water by itself. As much as I hate it for our team, I think Luke made the right decision for himself, and I hope that he stand by it. With all of his knowledge and abilities I will be shocked if he does not find coaching success, and I think with his injury history that's the best path for him now. I just hope that success comes with us.

That was an uninspired defense playing a scheme that did not fit Luke

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That was an uninspired defense playing a scheme that did not fit Luke

Both true, but I still think Luke could only do so much if he were on the field this year. I think one of the things you saw with him last year was frustration at his inability to mask by himself all of the limitations of the defense he was stuck in.

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8 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

Both true, but I still think Luke could only do so much if he were on the field this year. I think one of the things you saw with him last year was frustration at his inability to mask by himself all of the limitations of the defense he was stuck in.

True but he had people running straight at him because of a porous D line that was historically bad against the run

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