05-17-2019, 01:34 PM
(05-15-2019, 11:10 AM)sandwedge Wrote: Winning the 3rd down battle and getting off the field was our biggest problem last year. I honestly thought the last coaching staff played too cautious. Sure nobody wants to get beat by the big play. but damn you have to take a risk and gamble sometimes. There never to seemed to be a push up the middle from our DL and when we did the force the QB out of the pocket, there wasn't a LB for miles around. Just shows that our scheme last season was very bad.
Yes, which comes down to coaching, otherwise the players have to coach themselves which hardly ever happens.
(05-15-2019, 11:53 AM)HuDey Wrote: I would say that it depends on what the strengths and weaknesses are this season. I would guess that with minimal changes to personnel, those would be similar to last season. In that case, I will stick with running the ball and keeping them off the field as much as possible.
I don’t really know what to expect from Captain Lou but I hope that they will attack more rather than sit back and let the offense dictate to them. Mix it up, be less predictable, and overall just give the offense something to think about other than exploiting the same mismatches for chunk gains.
Have to be aggressive and unpredictable, we were the most conservative and predictable Defense in the NFL last year.
Easy to see why we were the worst.
(05-15-2019, 12:03 PM)lone bengal Wrote: The first key for the defense becoming at least respectable ,starts with them stopping the run. Everyone talks about the linebackers being terrible in coverage as the demise of the defense but we also got absolutely gashed on the ground and dominated in time of possession. Our offense can’t do anything from the sidelines. In our division we need to stop the run to be successful or we will get killed by play action pass. The Ravens added Mark Ingram and want a run heavy offense with Lamar Jackson, Pittsburgh has one of the best O-lines in the league and James Connor played well before he got hurt, then the Browns have a bruiser in Nick Chubb and added Kareem Hunt. Hopefully getting back a healthy Preston Brown helps the run defense, that’s supposed to be this guys strength. Also looking for Billings to take the next step at NT. He was supposed to be a great run defender coming out of college and has just been average so far.
I think Billings is starting to find his own, took awhile, damn.
He is still young though, we got him when he was 21 years old.
Wren might help a bit stopping the run if Glasgow is not completely healed. Wren is a good run stopper.
It is Wren's pass rushing skills that need work and that can be taught.
