is there something fundamental about why teams that run the spread offense generally struggle defensively?
this seems to be particularly evident in college. Oregon, Ok St, West Virginia, Texas AM, Mizzou, Clemson, many others, all run spread and every year struggle defensively. The Bills and Panthers run the closest things to a college Spread in the NFL and have been consistently terrible defensively since doing so.
So I ask, is there something about facing spread personnel every day in practice that makes a defense particularly soft, or staright up sucky?