BB came out and denied it in his press conference today, but it never really made sense to me. Why would it come out now that he was having trouble with the playbook? Wouldn’t that have been something that was a problem this summer during training camp?
He’s just come off of a month off essentially where there would’ve been plenty of time to study. But now he gets back and suddenly the playbook is a mystery to him? I don’t get it.
And really, “getting the playbook” on defense is more about communication than it is making on the fly adjustments. Yes, there’s an element of pattern reading that Browner is likely to be asked to do in New England that he wasn’t asked to do in Seattle, so maybe that is part of it.
But I agree with what Albert Breer said today, that Browner will be a specialty matchup piece. And if that is the case they might just have to confine him to heavy man-coverage games.