(05-11-2024, 10:25 PM)Jag149 Wrote:

(05-11-2024, 12:53 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I had actually forgotten him too.

(finally) 

(thankfully) 

I am really excited to see what Nielsen, Kris Richard and Cory Robinson do with this secondary. 
I feel pretty optimistic about this defense the more I look into these coaches and new players. 
Of course - it is homer season.  

Watch some Atlanta video. It is an in your face defense. Thank goodness, I always wondered why our guys maintained some distance between them and receivers. Kind of a soft press.

The D, like anything, depends on how you're talent lines up with the scheme. If you've got CBs that can disrupt the route and play with their backs to the ball then playing press works, if you've got CBs that are better at playing with the ball in front of them and can disrupt the thrown ball then off-coverage works. 

The best DCs manipulate their scheme to the talent on hand.

I remember when good, but not not elite, CB Kareem Jackson went from Wade Phillips defense (press man) to the Broncos (off-coverage) he was excited that he wasn't under constant pressure all of the time.

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