Brandon Staley and Christian Parker interviewed for Defensive Coordinator, Doug Nussmeier interviewed for OC; all on Feb 16

I’m becoming concerned about this. Combine starts next week IIRC. The defense is in worse shape than the offense.

We have a first time head coach who's very offensive minded. It's quite possible and maybe even likely that fixing the defense isn't priority in year 1. Especially with how porous the offense was. When you throw in the idea that our defensive scheme is going from an odd man front 4-3 to an odd man front 3-4 cover 2 or cover 3, it even makes more sense spending a year assessing what talent we have while teaching the new scheme before committing lots of resources to fix it. It would be absolutely silly to spend a 1st round pick to upgrade our pass rush when we have Foskey, Payton, Granderson plus other talent (Ford, Ridgeway, Kpassagnon, Young) that may blossom on the new scheme.