Please tell me if our pass defense is going to be any better than the past 10 years. Buy the looks of the first game against Seattle looks like the same old, same old. Any thoughts on how it will be this year ?
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Please tell me if our pass defense is going to be any better than the past 10 years. Buy the looks of the first game against Seattle looks like the same old, same old. Any thoughts on how it will be this year ?
Welcome to the site my friend.
Post well and post often.
As to your question I guess it comes down to a difference of opinion on here based on your feelings about the Cover 2 Scheme.
Some kindof feel like it is a glorified version of the prevent defense.
And we all know that any self respecting football fan doesn't like the prevent at all.
;D
Long story short, our biggest issue last year with respect to our pass defense was centered on the fact that we couldn't get any decent pressure on the QB without bringing a LB or two.
That caused a hole in the short underneath routes allowing opposing QB's to pick us to pieces with short dinks/dunks.
With the addition of JA and the movement of Ray to LDE it appears we will be able to improve our pass rush from the front 4 and bring a bit more pressure without using LB'rs which ultimately exposes our CB's.
All pure speculation at this point as I don't think we saw anything out of our Defense in the Seachickens game to make a honest assesment because we all know the Chiller doens't show his hand in pre-season and we were missing a couple of key players (Phat Pat/M-will) for that game.
IMHO our pass defense will be better this year.
remember, its preaseason.
I don't take much value in waht I see first preseason game.
If the 3rd game comes and we still can't stop anyone, then I would start to be concerned, but I think we will do much better, as long as we stop with the injuries.
Madieu Williams hurts us, and we can't afford to have Ray Edwards hurt at all.
But all we can do really is wait and see, and speculate.
Pre-season just doesn't have the intensity of regular season and it makes it very hard to take the results seriously.
I agree with Marr that our biggest issue in pass defense last year was with the push from our front 4.
If they can maintain decent pressure, you should see a much improved pass defense.
However, because of the strength of our run defense, look for the pass defense to still be the area most teams go after.
I would still expect to see a fair amount of passing yards put up against us, but hopefully drives will stall faster and even fewer points will be scored on us.
Madieu is a very important part of our defense as IBP points out.
If the front 4 gets the pressure we are expecting, I think you will see a little more ball hawking in our secondary as well, which may not sit well with a lot of PP.O'ers.
However, its Leslie Frazier's MO and falls in line with great range guys like Madieu and Tyrell.
Vikings' D was tied at 11th for the least # of pts given up per game.
The whole pass coverage thing that everyone likes to whine about isn't nearly as much as a problem as people like to make it out to be.
Room for improvement?
Of course.
The theoretically better pass rush should help.
"Rochesterdave" wrote:
Well, mainly, Dave, I always try to remember that 3 quarters of that game were played by players who either are backups or who won't be on the roster this season.Quote:
Please tell me if our pass defense is going to be any better than the past 10 years. Buy the looks of the first game against Seattle looks like the same old, same old. Any thoughts on how it will be this year ?
So, of course, the Seattle game was meaningless.
Indianapolis is 2-14 in their last 16 pre-season games.
=Z=
I didn't even see the game, but:
a. It is pre-season
b. Seattle has one of the best passing attacks in the NFL
Also, Brad basically admitted that he was playing "vanilla zone" to see weaknesses.
i.e. no blitzes, etc.
One thing I have noticed is that we don't jam enough on the LOS in the Cover 2. One reason we drafted bigger corners was to jam the receivers on the line. We need to get better at that.
On the other hand, the positives:
- Antwoine Winfield
- Our tackling in general in the secondary
- Sharper and his INTs
I am confident about this aspect of our game, this year.
The real weakness won't be in the seconary, it will be at linebacker.
I think it depends on how many injuries we have. Two years ago we lost some key guys and I think that hurt us. Last year we were healthier but still suffered. This year we added talent but lost a few guys alreeady and have a few more dinged up. If we can get the guys back who are dinged and don't lose anybody else we might be better. Lose a few more guys and we might be worse.
"StillPurple" wrote:
No way... our weakness is definitely at Corner. I watched McCauley, Griffen and Winfield get smoked enough last year to know better than to blame it on the LB corps... who did a pretty damn good job.Quote:
I didn't even see the game, but:
a. It is pre-season
b. Seattle has one of the best passing attacks in the NFL
Also, Brad basically admitted that he was playing "vanilla zone" to see weaknesses.
i.e. no blitzes, etc.
One thing I have noticed is that we don't jam enough on the LOS in the Cover 2. One reason we drafted bigger corners was to jam the receivers on the line. We need to get better at that.
On the other hand, the positives:
- Antwoine Winfield
- Our tackling in general in the secondary
- Sharper and his INTs
I am confident about this aspect of our game, this year.
The real weakness won't be in the seconary, it will be at linebacker.
Winfield is overrated.
"C" wrote:
Agreed.Quote:
"StillPurple" wrote:
No way... our weakness is definitely at Corner. I watched McCauley, Griffen and Winfield get smoked enough last year to know better than to blame it on the LB corps... who did a pretty damn good job.Quote:
I didn't even see the game, but:
a. It is pre-season
b. Seattle has one of the best passing attacks in the NFL
Also, Brad basically admitted that he was playing "vanilla zone" to see weaknesses.
i.e. no blitzes, etc.
One thing I have noticed is that we don't jam enough on the LOS in the Cover 2. One reason we drafted bigger corners was to jam the receivers on the line. We need to get better at that.
On the other hand, the positives:
- Antwoine Winfield
- Our tackling in general in the secondary
- Sharper and his INTs
I am confident about this aspect of our game, this year.
The real weakness won't be in the seconary, it will be at linebacker.
Winfield is overrated.