Austin Bonta

Usually there's some regression to the mean in the takeaways.

So how do you win football games?

And you look at the Seattle Seahawks.

I keep going back to the Seahawks, the Eagles.

These teams that are able to stop the run without having eight guys in the box.

You can sit there and play cover two at times, stop the run.

That makes your defense so hard to beat that it's almost like an unfair advantage when you see what the Seahawks are able to do.

than versatile pieces.

Mike McDonald, you're able to really see his genius because he has Nick Emanuari, because you have Devin Weatherspoon, because you have all these guys in the defensive line that can move around and do all these different things.

It makes it hard for an offense to really pick up who these guys are as far as your rule set goes.

So Devin Weatherspoon or Nick Emanuari can be a safety.

He can also be a Sam linebacker.

He can be anywhere.

So it just makes it really hard for identification.

You put your mic point, find your linebackers.

Okay, is that a DB?

Is that the linebacker?

It's just very difficult when you have these versatile pieces.

Is that why Kyler Gordon is so important when you talk about next season?

Is that enough, a healthy Kyler Gordon?