I'm beginning to think that. He looked great in the post-season last year. But you are not always going to have a HOF edge rusher AND the best DT to ever play the game, at the absolute top of his game. Hell, Larry Marmie would have looked better than he was with that going for him. Most of the time, however, you've got to make due with less than that. The best DCs can do more with less.
And honestly, I really wonder how many people thought we could go into today's game against the 49ers and run the soft zone coverages against them and concede the short passes as we have done so many times before but get different results this time. It's bad enough that he can't come up with an answer (save for the NFCC, when he had Von), but the fact that he never even tries anything different against them is absolutely damning.