New Look Defense

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Zac Boyer
‏@ZacBoyer Phillip Thomas said Joe Barry told the defensive players that he's never had to work on players' tackling as much as he has this year.

They haven't even put on the pads yet. Joe Barry doesn't know the half of what he's in for with some of these players.

But fear not because Scot will just continue to get rid of players who can't or won't tackle and add players who can and will tackle. I trust that we're on the right track as far as tackling is concerned.

Here are some defensive stats from last year:
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | 2014 DEFENSIVE EFFICIENCY RATINGS (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef)

Football Outsiders Defensive Efficiency Stats:

Overall Defense: 30th

Pass Defense: 32nd Dead Dog Last

Rush Defense: 9th

I like the above FBO defensive stats because raw yards and even points doesn't completely isolate the defense from special teams and offense.

Other stats I like to judge the defense:
NFL Stats: by Team Category (http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?tabSeq=2&season=2014&seasonType=REG&role=OPP&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&conference=ALL&defensiveStatisticCategory=TEAM_PASSING&d-447263-s=PASSING_SACKED)

QB rating against: 108.3 or Dead Dog Last

YPA against: 8.2 tied w/ ATL for Dead Dog Last

Total Interceptions: 7 tied for 4th least

Sacks: 36 tied for 21st

Yeesh! We really sucked last season. Well, ever onward! I'm looking forward to seeing some improvement this season.

Tackling wasn't a focus within the haslett scheme

Ummmm ... are you suggesting that there WAS a focus?

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Taylor Mays back on the market.

Ummmm ... are you suggesting that there WAS a focus?

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I think one focus was the ability to successfully chase the other team into the end zone. I think I remember a quote by haslett, and I might be paraphrasing here, but he said something along the lines of "when the game is over and our opponents leave the field I want them to be physically out of breath from being chased all day into the end zone. we are gonna chase harder than anyone else in the league."

I call that focus

Yes that is similar to the strategy of using your face to wear down your opponents fists in the manly arts......
It's good to have a strategy.

How the....Hell did we get Bill Callahan away from the boys?
Love this guy...

How the....Hell did we get Bill Callahan away from the boys?
Love this guy...

He's buddies with Bruce Allen going back to the Raiders days.

Thanx for the post. I was thinking.....MAN this dude is gold
Is it not sweeter still to .....put it to the boys like that

Last year:
https://www.profootballfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-depth-update-WAS.png

The front 5 has taken a huge step forward; to the point where on paper they match-up well with any front 5 in the league.

ROLB-Gallette
RDE-Hatcher
NT-Knighton
LDE-Paea
LOLB-Kerrigan