Training Camp: News, Notes & Updates

[SunsetBengal]

(08-02-2019, 10:35 AM)Au165 Wrote: We were top 10 in the league last year in the amount of times we ran man, we were a mam defense last year. This weird hate for zone defense around here, and by most NFL fans is funny. The top 5 teams in the amount of zone defense ran last year were Colts, Chargers, Cardinals, Seahawks, Cowboys. Outside of the Cardinals those are four of the top defenses in the NFL last season. 

Could it be because zone is what those teams run, and have been running for quite some time?  There's a difference when you draft players that are good zone defenders to plug into your already disciplined unit, and taking a team that has been a man coverage team for years and suddenly asking them to instantly do well in zone.