The focus when something goes wrong on defense against the passing game is always on the back end. You see the cornerbacks running two or three steps behind the receivers. You see safeties arriving too late to help. You see linebackers unable to cover running backs and tight ends. You see chaos and quickly pin the blame on the guys with all the rules stacked against them.
We saw lots of that in the Eagles' Monday night loss in Atlanta, which is why Byron Maxwell has quickly become the $63 million question mark rather than the solution to the secondary problems that led to coach Chip Kelly's major offseason overhaul.