I'm a big fan of Press-Man coverage. I like aggressive attacking defenses. Even if you get burned occasionally I'd rather that than let a good QB sit back and pick apart your zone up and down the field.

Also, he did this with their defense paired with the 26th scoring offense (we were 13th), 27 giveaways on offense (we had 30), 17th in total offense (we were 13th). In fact the only thing the ATL offense was better than us at was rushing the ball and slightly more efficient at third down.

So being saddled with a worse offense, they were better than us in almost every category. Some of these are redundant to what's been posted but I like to list them next to the Jags stats for comparison.

Total Def: ATL 11th, Jax 22nd
Passing Def: ATL 8th, Jax 26th
Rushing Def: ATL 20th, Jax 9th. The skewed stat here is we allowed 15 rushing TDs, ATL allowed 11
Scoring Defense: Tied
RZ Def: ATL 4th, Jax 17th
3rd Down: ATL 3rd, Jax 8th
Sacks: ATL 42, Jax 40 ATL had 8 players with 3 or more sacks, Jax had 3.

Really the only thing we were undoubtedly better at was getting INTs, but that tailed off late in the season as well.

Now again, the opponents we faced skew these stats a bit, but ATL didn't exactly play Carolina 17 times either.

I love the hire personally.

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