Somewhere along the line, things flipped. Once upon a time, there were Philadelphia Eagles fans who were actually on the ‘Jim Schwartz should be the head coach over Doug Pederson train’. Then, things flipped permanently, probably after that awful defensive showing by the ‘Birds’ in Super Bowl LII and when we were immersed further into Schwartz’s blitz-free ideology and whatever that ‘sticks’ defense was.
That’s when something painful finally set in. Maybe Schwartz isn’t what we all thought he was.
Fast forward, and Schwartz blitzes more frequently, but these days it’s more out of desperation than scheme.