Justin Gilbert thoughts.....
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If Gilbert plays like a 1st round draft pick this year, (let alone a top 10 pick) our defense should be able to get the heck off the field on 3rd down pretty consistently.
If Gilbert plays like a 1st round draft pick this year, (let alone a top 10 pick) our defense should be able to get the heck off the field on 3rd down pretty consistently.
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If Gilbert plays like a 1st round draft pick this year, (let alone a top 10 pick) our defense should be able to get the heck off the field on 3rd down pretty consistently.
If Gilbert plays like a 1st round draft pick this year, (let alone a top 10 pick) our defense should be able to get the heck off the field on 3rd down pretty consistently.
Yes!
and, I think, we'll even get off the field on 1st and 2nd down more frequently too.....#morepickoffs
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??.....what are you trying to say?.....
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If Gilbert plays like a 1st round draft pick this year, (let alone a top 10 pick) our defense should be able to get the heck off the field on 3rd down pretty consistently.
Yes!
and, I think, we'll even get off the field on 1st and 2nd down more frequently too.....#morepickoffs
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??.....what are you trying to say?.....
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Stopping the run is an obvious fix that is priority #1 and between the players added and the coaches seeing what the main issues were, and promising to correct them, I feel good about them being at least a middle of the road run defense.
That should lead to a fair amount of 3rd and 5s this year, and with our lack of QB pressure that I'm again expecting, the DBs are going to need to ball out, and we need all of them to ball out, not just #23.
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Stopping the run is an obvious fix that is priority #1 and between the players added and the coaches seeing what the main issues were, and promising to correct them, I feel good about them being at least a middle of the road run defense.
That should lead to a fair amount of 3rd and 5s this year, and with our lack of QB pressure that I'm again expecting, the DBs are going to need to ball out, and we need all of them to ball out, not just #23.
Stopping the run is an obvious fix that is priority #1 and between the players added and the coaches seeing what the main issues were, and promising to correct them, I feel good about them being at least a middle of the road run defense.
That should lead to a fair amount of 3rd and 5s this year, and with our lack of QB pressure that I'm again expecting, the DBs are going to need to ball out, and we need all of them to ball out, not just #23.
Problem was, at 3rd & 5 teams would still run against us
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To be honest though, the difference between an elite rush defence and a bottom-feeding rush defence is about 50 ypg. The difference between an elite secondary and a bottom-feeding secondary is nearer 200 ypg. If we're going to be great at one and poor at the other, better it's this way around.
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Stopping the run is an obvious fix that is priority #1 and between the players added and the coaches seeing what the main issues were, and promising to correct them, I feel good about them being at least a middle of the road run defense.
That should lead to a fair amount of 3rd and 5s this year, and with our lack of QB pressure that I'm again expecting, the DBs are going to need to ball out, and we need all of them to ball out, not just #23.
Problem was, at 3rd & 5 teams would still run against us
Problem was, at 3rd & 5 teams would still run against us
The problem was that we had 75% of our defensive line out with injury at any given point in time.
Avoid the injuries, the run defense drastically improves.
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The problem was that we had 75% of our defensive line out with injury at any given point in time.
Avoid the injuries, the run defense drastically improves.
Relying on injuries to disappear is not a great strategy.
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The problem was that we had 75% of our defensive line out with injury at any given point in time.
Avoid the injuries, the run defense drastically improves.
Relying on injuries to disappear is not a great strategy.
Relying on injuries to disappear is not a great strategy.
That's why they added depth among the front 3 (or 4).
Right now we have 13 players on the roster along the defensive line.
Shelton
Taylor
Starks
D. Bryant
A. Bryant
Winn
Wynn
Slater
Hughes
Cooper
Kitchen
Meder
Tupou
Even with A. Bryant supposedly taking a prominent role at OLB, and four or so players getting released, that's still solid depth with solid talent. Shelton, Taylor, Starks, Winn and maybe Hughes could start for most of the league. D. Bryant would probably be a starter for at least half of the teams. Cooper and Slater are athletic freaks with high upside. Kitchen would probably start as a true NT for around 1/3 of the league.
We raised the ceiling by adding Shelton and Starks, and then raised the floor with Cooper and Slater. Even if we lost our starting three, we'd be in a better position than we were last year.
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Absolutely, we've iimprobed there in terms of depth and talent,we didn't just rely on guys getting healthy, which would have been a bad strategy.
I wasn't trying to say that's what we were doing, so sorry if that is how it came across
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If Gilbert plays like a 1st round draft pick this year, (let alone a top 10 pick) our defense should be able to get the heck off the field on 3rd down pretty consistently.
Yes!
and, I think, we'll even get off the field on 1st and 2nd down more frequently too.....#morepickoffs
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??.....what are you trying to say?.....
??.....what are you trying to say?.....
Kaopectate?
To be honest though, the difference between an elite rush defence and a bottom-feeding rush defence is about 50 ypg. The difference between an elite secondary and a bottom-feeding secondary is nearer 200 ypg. If we're going to be great at one and poor at the other, better it's this way around.
Yeah, but...
The ramifications of being as poor against the run as we were last year (league worst) far exceed the yardages. Time of possession immediately springs to mind. Sustained drives feature successful running leading to fatigued D leading to D injuries leading to even further reduced ability to stop the run.
We raised the ceiling by adding Shelton and Starks, and then raised the floor with Cooper and Slater.
Interesting take. Had not thought of it in those terms.
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Bottom line is stopping the run on first down makes an offense a lot more predictable on 2nd-3rd down. I'm really hopeful our front 7 can be a lot better and we can go into more nickel/dime in longer down situations.
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More good stuff on Gilbert coming outta OTA's ...has had a very strong 2 weeks......it's early, but apparently there are some pretty obvious improvements in both his effort and play!....very good news!!!!.....
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Glad to hear he is doing better.
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yep....and Pettine is being understandably reserved.....which I like.....
not one players ass has been kissed since he stepped in....
yep....and Pettine is being understandably reserved.....which I like.....
not one players ass has been kissed since he stepped in....
I hear ya but I got an outrageous flashback to Butch Davis bringing in Big Money as he was telling all the veterans and young players they had to earn their jobs here. Meanwhile, Big Money could snooze control an entire practice keeping that jockstrap ballsweat-free in the reality of actions speaking louder than words. That FREE RIDE clogging the arteries of our salary cap was a lot like the nightime glacier the Titanic ran into. Like the gorgeous ship, the inevitable conclusion made us forget Butch took over a 5-27 football team and got it to 7-9 with 2 OT losses in 2001 before going 9-7 in 2002. That was an impressive coaching job before he took on the front office role that buried everything.
The personnel decisions he committed to with his Personnel Exec hat on became a gigantic conflict of interest with his Coaching hat that needed assistant coaches and players to buy into what he was saying. It was almost like Big $ got to practice supine on a chase lounge while teammates had to earn their jobs. That's about as close to Romper Room as it gets only this target population was adults. The only thing we were missing was a Jeff Foxworthy interpretation of it all.
Like you're saying, this is a refreshing leadership today we can trust and get excited about. We're coming off 7-9 where we lost 2 games with knotted scores as time expired as well as losing 2nd half leads to Indy, Balt, Buffalo, Carolina. Understanding how outrageous our 2014 injury volume was coming off 4-12 football, that was way better improvement than the national media's doom and gloom clouds. Today, we're getting very good players back healthy + vet free agents + 12 draftees & rookie FAs. The light at the end of the tunnel is no longer the head lamp of an oncoming train unless someone wants/needs it to be. When I made the mistake of reading Tony Grossi last year - he'd be describing last season like lyrics of the Edmund Fitzgerald minus the voice of Gordon Lightfoot of course. His Gitchy Goomy just showed us the author needed a lot more gitchy gitchy gew when he missed his anger management classes.
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It's hard as hell to eat lunch at our computer, and read Flugel's funny stuff and lol at the same time.
Dammit.
I'd better go buy a backup keyboard....
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It's hard as hell to eat lunch at our computer, and read Flugel's funny stuff and lol at the same time.
Dammit.
I'd better go buy a backup keyboard....
It's hard as hell to eat lunch at our computer, and read Flugel's funny stuff and lol at the same time.
Dammit.
I'd better go buy a backup keyboard....
Look who's talking. I hit the deck LMAO when you posted that Joey Bottaflacco likes it when male equipment managers rub his balls.
That entertainment factor ranked right up there with watching a new school mindset thinking Zombo is the perfect guy to take on in front of an audience. When Jerry Springer found recruits like that - who topped him in the ratings?
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