The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired Mike Smith to revamp their defense, but it's unclear how different he'll actually be from Lovie Smith. In his inaugural press conference, the former Falcons head coach talked about running a flexible defense out of a 4-3 base in his inaugural press conference, but didn't give us a lot of details. So I turned to Dave Choate of the Falcoholic to ask him about Mike Smith's defenses with the Falcons.
How involved was Mike Smith in running the day-to-day defense?
He was, from my impression, not overly involved in the day-to-day work, especially when Mike Nolan came on board.