For what it's worth the scouting reports make it seem like Strong and Alexander are very similiar in size and speed with Strong being a better man defender and Alexander being a zone guy
I get it that people didn't think Wallace was a shutdown CB but most of our secondary gave up well over a 100 rating to opposing QB's last year. In his time here Wallace never gave up higher than an 85 rating for a season. If one of these rookies could come in and play that well their first year I'd be pretty happy. I have a little higher hopes for Hairston but after Elam I'm hoping we get at least a serviceable starter.
You play tight man all game long you can fake cover zero or single high and drop into zone on critical downs. You play soft zone all the time and then go man on critical downs you better have some damn good man corners or you get burnt. The other thing is you can see how handsy the refs are letting the defense play. Teams frequently get very grabby with our guys and we let guys run free for easy quick passes all game long. Once upon a time our soft zone was a small cushion and a big hit but now a days our soft zone is 5 or 6 yards and more missed tackles after that.
Andreesen last game looked like you could get by with him. This game he looks like the Pats game where Mac Jones carved us up throwing to Pharoah Brown and Kendrick Bourne.