Al Golden's Defense

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(Yesterday, 11:13 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Sounds like you need to go to some couples therapy because there were no excuses or moving goal posts even though those seem like trendy buzzwords you can use to dismiss a pretty clear answer to the question.

You asked me what the Commanders looked like this time last year, and my answer is they looked like they had two Pro Bowl DTs to build around and they spent money to do so. That's an actual building block for a defense, and yes, you do need a couple actually good players to build around. You have a bunch of bad/mediocre/okay players and it doesn't matter how much communication and doing the right things you have if you don't have some good players.

The Super Bowl capped an astonishing turnaround for an Eagles defense that ranked 26th in yards allowed, 30th in points allowed, 31st in pass defense, 24th in sacks, 29th in first downs allowed, 31st on third down and 30th in the red zone last year.

Go ahead. Read those numbers again.

That was one year ago.

Enter Fangio, a new staff and seven new starters and the youngest defense in the NFL finished 1st in yards allowed, 2nd in points allowed, 1st in pass defense, 15th in sacks, 1st in first downs allowed, 3rd on third down and 5th in the red zone.

Without question, the greatest defensive turnaround in NFL history. And Fangio was the mastermind behind it.