http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/culver-plans-emerge-shadows
Anybody know what he means by a "fun defense?"
Anybody know what he means by a "fun defense?"
http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/culver-plans-emerge-shadows
Anybody know what he means by a "fun defense?"
I think Pasqualoni deserved to be fired, as he would tell you and as Sparano and Ireland would say, in the end there's just an accountability issue. But all this crap about an attacking defense, talking about Pasqualoni as if he wasn't aggressive and didn't blitz, blah blah blah...I hate being fed a plate of crap and told it's caviar. And it happens pretty much every year. Every defensive coordinator is better than the previous defensive coordinator. Every new defensive coordinator "attacks more" than the previous defensive coordinator. Every new offensive coordinator is "more aggressive" than the previous offensive coordinator.
that's probably a reference to all the laterals and "thinking TD" when the defense creates a turnover
Pasqualoni sucked... I knew it was a bad hire from the day we brought him over from Dallas.. I know first hand from him destroying my orangemen
Really? Orangemen were pretty good when he was here...After he left it went downhill..You wanna blame anyone blame Robinson..That guy was awful...
When Paul was here..the organemen had good to great defenses every year...they just could not do anything on offense after Mcnabb left..
He wasnt the reason.. He had Dnabb, Freeney, Bullock, Allen.. etc... he had great players that made him SEEM like a great coach. Once they left was when the program went downhill drastically, it was proof he couldnt coach up players for ****.
I think that does constitute one of the differences. They're drilling that where I don't know that most defenses do. But it's really a minor difference.
Another difference is that Nolan tries to spread out his linebacker blitzing among the two inside linebackers and one of the two inside linebackers a little more evenly. I think Pasqualoni would blitz more with Porter and Taylor, less with Ayodele and Crowder (can you blame him?), where Nolan would take a few of those blitzes off Porter's and Taylor's hands and toss them toward Akin Ayodele, who might have been replaced by Reggie Torbor in a Mike Nolan starting lineup.
This does not necessarily constitute more aggression overall. Miami had 4.36 players rushing the QB on average under Pasqualoni (4.29 in 2008 and 4.41 in 2009). If you take into account Mike Nolan's defense in San Francisco combined with his defense in Denver, he had had 4.33 players rushing the passer on average (4.22 in San Fran 2008, 4.44 in Denver 2009).
Was Nolan a tiny bit more aggressive in 2009 than Pasqualoni? Yes, by a miniscule amount. Nolan blitzed DBs every 5.6 plays in Denver, Pasqualoni in 2009 blitzed DBs every 6.4 plays. Denver had 4.44 players rushing the QB to Miami's 4.41. The differences in both are so miniscule as to barely be mentionable. And when you take 2008 into account, Pasqualoni was technically more aggressive than Nolan on a two-year basis.
We're not necessarily talking about more aggression to the QB, just a different kind of aggression. Mike Nolan will blitz the DBs just a little bit more (not much but a little). But I emphasize, the difference is not significant. The bigger difference is like I said where Pasqualoni would want guys like Taylor and Porter doing the heavy lifting from the outsides on the pass rush, Nolan will take one of his inside linebackers and make him almost as significant a blitzer as the strong side outside linebacker, who at the same time becomes a guy that drops back into coverage a lot more than Jason Taylor did.
I would say there's a little bit more movement in Nolan's defenses. Probably more fakes. More zone coverage from linebackers.