The defensive talent actually wasn't that bad. While it wasn't on par with what we had in 2012, it was still serviceable.
Jon Tenuta kept calling for those stupid jailbreak blitzes every down, and all it took was a simple quickout or screen pass for a team to easily pick up good yardage against us.
The only time his defense actually worked was against Nevada, where a really dumb Colin Kaepernick couldn't make a throw to save his life.
The funny thing here, is that on the rare occasions where Tenuta called a conservative defense, that's when the defense played at its best.
Had we played a more conservative bend, but don't break, defense, I would all but guarantee you that at least 4 of those 6 losses would have flipped to the win column.