IF your Leadership is suspect AT ALL, your team is to. you have to have above average Leadership TO build the foundations of your Offense, IF THE FOUNDATION is strong, the players behind it can be standard or above and do ok to produce and win.
IF the foundation of your Defense is solid, then the OTHER players should be no less than “serviceable” and above that skill-wise. you cannot lose one or two players and have the whole thing fall apart! you cannot be that easy to destroy or disrupt ! or other areas fold until your DEFENSE implodes !!! quite a bit like WE are seeing here in 2019 ! The cornerstones and building blocks have to be no less -than “fairly solid” !! same with the front office and o-line and offensive players…you get disrupted easy by A player or two going out on injury , the remaining parts start to wear and fail until it’s in ruin !!