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[jmalon3]

FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | 2015 DEFENSE EFFICIENCY RATINGS

This is a pretty detailed statistical breakdown of our defense against every other team last year. It breaks it down very well. Take a look at it. I feel a little better about our D this year because we addressed some of the main areas we were bad at last year (Mainly covering TE and RB on short passes). Our new LB core should help the most with this problem.

 

[Krodwhodat]

To be honest I am on record with my prediction of 12-4 and sticking with it but with that said that was our only weakness on D in preseason was short passes to RB and TE so I'm hoping we fix that.


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[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

To be honest I am on record with my prediction of 12-4 and sticking with it but with that said that was our only weakness on D in preseason was short passes to RB and TE so I'm hoping we fix that.


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I think both are probably by design. I noticed we gave up very little over the top via the pre-season. I actually heard about more busted coverages in practice than we actually saw wide open guys in pre-season which is good because it means we are doing some things behind the scenes in practice (disguise) that didn't make it to the pre-season games.

With that being said when you are taking away everything Deep RB check downs are going to happen. And when you are playing Cover 3 the seams are going to be attacked where the TE's and slot WR's usually reside.

 

[CitySaint]

I wonder how much of an impact the significantly reduced pass interference penalties will have? It might make more of a dent than any player we have acquired.