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After Further Review: The Dolphins just may have the NFL's best defense

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Great article by Senior NFL Columnist Pete Prisco. Worth clicking the link below

"After three weeks of the NFL season, the Miami Dolphins defense was 30th in the league in points allowed, had just given up five touchdowns to the Kansas City Chiefs, and players were privately grumbling about the scheme.

Six weeks later, the Dolphins are third in scoring defense (18.9), third in total defense, first in yards per play at 4.7, second in passing yards per game, fourth in sacks per game at 3.1 and third in completion percentage against. The run defense, which yielded 174 yards to the Chiefs that day without Jamaal Charles, has improved to 12th in the league.

If the numbers don't say it, I will: This Dolphins defense is one of the best in the NFL, if not the best."

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer...-dolphins-just-may-have-the-nfls-best-defense
 
But don't forget, people, Coyle hasn't got a clue what he's doing.....

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Fin Thirteen said:
But don't forget, people, Coyle hasn't got a clue what he's doing.....

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I've always liked Coyle. Thought he was a good DC hire based on his resume. He gets a little too cute for his own good from time to time (KC game), but he's sneakily become a very good coordinator and I personally think he'll start getting head coaching interviews this offseason
 
ChambersWI said:
I've always liked Coyle. Thought he was a good DC hire based on his resume. He gets a little too cute for his own good from time to time (KC game), but he's sneakily become a very good coordinator and I personally think he'll start getting head coaching interviews this offseason
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I never liked him and thought he was a terrible hire, however I am very happy to see he is game planning well and seems to be using the players strengths. I see CB's giving half as much 10 yard cushions as they have in the past and his blitz and pressure packages are gaining momentum.
 
I not a big fan of his but he is getting the most out of what he's working with all yr......the secondary looks weak on paper but the young kids have stepped up and Finnegan is getting it done right now...the D only had the bad KC game the other loses they kept us in the game....we will be tested over the next few weeks with Denver, Ravens and Pats throw in our bad match up team Buffalo and they have there hands full. The key to our D is our offense....if RT can run an effective offense our D is fine....that's why I say the playoffs is on RT shoulders.....
 
dolpns13 said:
I never liked him and thought he was a terrible hire, however I am very happy to see he is game planning well and seems to be using the players strengths. I see CB's giving half as much 10 yard cushions as they have in the past and his blitz and pressure packages are gaining momentum.
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I understand that, and early on he was way too excited to do zone blitzes like his mentor Dick LeBeau, but he's found his niche. I liked the hire as he had developed a reputation of developing talent. I mean he got damn near 20 INTs in a season from Deltha O'Neal and Tory James. And with as bad as Nolan Carroll and Jimmy Wilson looked before he got here (while Jimmy isn't great at safety or as a boundary corner, he's damn good in the slot) I like what he's done.
 
C'mon, Coyle is a great coach, great trainer of skills and fundamentals, great scout of talent that appears "washed-up" or dinged-up and - most of all - great gameday coordinator.

He's doing it with what's basically the No-name Defense V2.0. Outside of Wake and maybe Starks, this defense is a bunch of UDFAs, under-rated's, nobodies and has-been's. Even Grimes was maybe the 5th or 6th best FA corner traded two offseasons ago - in the minds of just about everyone (and I'm probably being generous to how he was perceived then). Guys like Shields, Keenan Lewis, Cromartie, Houston, Talib...hell even Sean Smith was probably rated as a bigger-ticket FA than Grimes, due to Grimes' injury.

We're one corner away from being unplayable. If we could put Finnegan in full time covering the slot and had a dependable boundary guy, it'd be like stealing lunch money.

Hella props to Coyle.
 
You cannot argue with results. right now this defense and team are on a roll.
His scheme seems to make the most of the talent that we have available. That is all you can ask from a coach.
 
Our defense and offense are designed to work in unison. Our resources on defense have been put into stopping the pass first and foremost, our run defense is supposed to come from our own offense to a large degree. We're a team set up to snowball modest leads into blowouts. I could see the vision long before the results started to happen.

The downside is if our opponent can stay balanced, or if they get a lead to where they can run most of the time we're probably going to look bad. This is what's impressive to me, that despite our offense being pretty putrid the past 2 years the defense has still been pretty solid, they still put the team on their backs and won us games. In points against we were one of the few teams to be top ten and miss the playoffs the past 2 years. In that stat overall under Coyle/Philbin we were 5th behind Seattle, San Fran, Cincy and Carolina. I would guess we're up to second or third in that stat right now as a few of those teams have fallen off this season and we're once again in the top 10.

This with Sean Smith and Richard Marshall as our CBs in 2012.
 
Excellent article. Thanks for posting Danny.
 
dolpns13 said:
I never liked him and thought he was a terrible hire, however I am very happy to see he is game planning well and seems to be using the players strengths. I see CB's giving half as much 10 yard cushions as they have in the past and his blitz and pressure packages are gaining momentum.
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Terrible hire? Average at worst but I don't see how it was possibly a terrible hire at the time.
 
Coyle has always been good as our defensive coordinator and the only thing that has changed is PERCEPTION. He has done a great job all three years - just because some people don't notice doesn't mean he wasn't performing. Even when Philbin and Sherman were on the hot seat last season, it was understood that Kevin Coyle's job was safe. He's a very solid coordinator.

Oh yeah, one other thing has changed - our offense. You have to be pretty clueless to think having a 19pt/game offense wouldn't affect your defensive performance. Now that we can score points, and get an ACTUAL LEAD (you know, more than 1 score game), you can see how a defensive strategy can become a bit more aggressive and "free".
 
After three weeks of the NFL season, the Miami Dolphins defense was 30th in the league in points allowed, had just given up five touchdowns to the Kansas City Chiefs, and players were privately grumbling about the scheme.

Six weeks later, the Dolphins are third in scoring defense (18.9), third in total defense, first in yards per play at 4.7, second in passing yards per game, fourth in sacks per game at 3.1 and third in completion percentage against. The run defense, which yielded 174 yards to the Chiefs that day without Jamaal Charles, has improved to 12th in the league.
If the numbers don't say it, I will: This Dolphins defense is one of the best in the NFL, if not the best.
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read more: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer...-dolphins-just-may-have-the-nfls-best-defense
 
After that kc game I promise you that defense went to coyle and had a discussion as professionals about how to right the ship


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