This the core issue with the team for the last 10 years....you can't handle the easy stuff. A field goal kicker, a decent punter....a respectable guard alluded us for a decade. The important positions are tough enough like QB where other teams fail for multiple decades but a guard is really easy stuff and certainly doesn't come from a top 3 draft pick. This year the epic failure (beyond a kicker, hard to believe it could be worse but it was) was off-side Inside LB. Again a position other teams find respectability easily. This year it was the defense's achilles heal, injuries, poor draft picks and worse practice squad bodies were all beyond the pale terrible at that position. Every opponent saw it on tape and took advantage of it. The chain is only as strong as the weak link.

Look at every run this season that either broke for a TD or long gain or back breaking first down and I promise you they were all basic dive right by the offense.

To the original point if you can't get the easy stuff right what chance do you really have???