Defensive Coaching

Given our personnel, it's hard to imagine us playing much better defensively this year.

Certainly, there was a bad game (Steelers), but there have been some tremendous stretches (first half of the Eagles game; tremendous early work against the Packers that kept us in the game; first three quarters yesterday; all but 4 minutes of the second Bucs game; first three quarters of the Panthers game) where they've done a very good job of getting off the field and getting us the ball back in good field position.

We simply do not have the athletes to create a lot of turnovers or take a lot of chances. If we blitz too, too much, we are going to get killed out there. We probably could be better coached, but I'm not sure by how much, and I was one of the guys out there really scratching his head about the choice of DC last spring. It's always easy to say stuff like "the safeties aren't getting over" and "we should blitz more", but teams now have to work to run the ball on us and to attack our weak spots, as opposed to just coming out and running their offense like it's a skeleton drill. Overall, I'm pleased.