It was a little less than a year ago when Marcel Yates stood before a scrum of reporters, bloggers and cameras and explained that his third season as Arizona’s defensive coordinator would be when you would really see what he could accomplish.
“I gave myself a certain amount of time, when I came here in ‘16, and I kind of looked under the hood and saw what I had,” Yates said during 2018 training camp. “To me, I said three or four years would be enough to recruit the right kind of guys.