Good post OP. More often than not our defensive philosophy is based on fear, bend but not break, keep every thing in front. This is fine against many teams in the regular season as they’re not good enough to exploit it. But good coaches and qbs can and will exploit this, especially in the playoffs as we’ve seen repeatedly over the last few years. This was the Patriots with a young QB but they decided to pass more in the second half because it was plain to see how we were playing.
If people think we’re a shoe-in for the one seed, get ready - it’s gonna be a bumpy ride with this D.