LikeUntoGod
The Oracle
For whatever boring whiny reasons I guess I have not been covering us as closely as I normally do. I need some help here figuring out what is going on here.
I was watching some video reports and reading some others from Detroit news sources. A few times they mentioned we had the 2nd best secondary in the NFL. And they meant that stat wise, as in we are allowing the 2nd least passing yards per game.
Which got a part of my brain running over the names in our secondary. Hmmmm, no CB that we traded two 1st for, no superstar. Grimes often plays like one but he is not considered a top 10 corner. If you ran a fantasy draft Grimes would not be a top 20-30 pick at corner. I thought the secondary was supposed to be a semi problem area for us.
Then i thought, well, it is not all the back 4, it is also our front 4. It is our pressure that helps our DBs. We are 5th in sacks. Watching replays I saw where every interception was a result of a Dolphin attacking the QB. They will mostly go down as "QB Hits" and "hurries" but they caused the passes to be off. And unlike the last few years, our secondary has been leaping and diving and snagging every deflected ball.
And wait, 2nd in passing yards per game means our Linebackers are covering. WTF? When did this start happening? O wait, pressure, pressure, pressure. Hold on, Linebackers was supposed to be a total mess for us........I know I've been busy lately but when did things start falling into place?
We are the "3rd rated" defense yards wise and points wise so no slight of hand here, our defense is good. In fact, it is really really good. Good mix of ages and we have a rotation of pass rushers.
But what is really cool is that some how we are also the 9th best scoring team in the NFL at 26.4 PPG. 9th in the NFL does not seems overwhelming but you have to remember we were 26th last season and 27th the year before that. So for us to jump to 9th in a great sign for me, I knew our defense would be good, I think most Dolphins fans believed that we would have a good if not very good defense this season. If you add us being 9th in offense and being a top 3 defense and being the 4th best running team, that makes a combo that is hard to beat. And this Tannehill guy has 14 TDs to only 6 interceptions. Crazy.
I've always said it all comes from top down. You need a semi stable owner who is willing to spend money and stay semi out. Then you need a good General manager. Then you need the part where the rubber hits the road. The Head Coach and the assistant coaches.
It now all comes from the Head Coach. The right Head Coach in any sport is often more important then anything else. In the NFL, it is everything. We got ourselves a 'Iceman". And he brought a friend who helped us decide if we should draft Tannehill and was our poor OC. But he is gone and been replaced by maybe the best hire in the NFL, Bill Lazor.
So we now seem to have a good HC and a good OC and DC.
After watching us line up for years in the exact same places and formations was maddening. Now we set up everywhere, move everywhere, attack everywhere. I'm feeling it.
:rob19:
I was watching some video reports and reading some others from Detroit news sources. A few times they mentioned we had the 2nd best secondary in the NFL. And they meant that stat wise, as in we are allowing the 2nd least passing yards per game.
Which got a part of my brain running over the names in our secondary. Hmmmm, no CB that we traded two 1st for, no superstar. Grimes often plays like one but he is not considered a top 10 corner. If you ran a fantasy draft Grimes would not be a top 20-30 pick at corner. I thought the secondary was supposed to be a semi problem area for us.
Then i thought, well, it is not all the back 4, it is also our front 4. It is our pressure that helps our DBs. We are 5th in sacks. Watching replays I saw where every interception was a result of a Dolphin attacking the QB. They will mostly go down as "QB Hits" and "hurries" but they caused the passes to be off. And unlike the last few years, our secondary has been leaping and diving and snagging every deflected ball.
And wait, 2nd in passing yards per game means our Linebackers are covering. WTF? When did this start happening? O wait, pressure, pressure, pressure. Hold on, Linebackers was supposed to be a total mess for us........I know I've been busy lately but when did things start falling into place?
We are the "3rd rated" defense yards wise and points wise so no slight of hand here, our defense is good. In fact, it is really really good. Good mix of ages and we have a rotation of pass rushers.
But what is really cool is that some how we are also the 9th best scoring team in the NFL at 26.4 PPG. 9th in the NFL does not seems overwhelming but you have to remember we were 26th last season and 27th the year before that. So for us to jump to 9th in a great sign for me, I knew our defense would be good, I think most Dolphins fans believed that we would have a good if not very good defense this season. If you add us being 9th in offense and being a top 3 defense and being the 4th best running team, that makes a combo that is hard to beat. And this Tannehill guy has 14 TDs to only 6 interceptions. Crazy.
I've always said it all comes from top down. You need a semi stable owner who is willing to spend money and stay semi out. Then you need a good General manager. Then you need the part where the rubber hits the road. The Head Coach and the assistant coaches.
It now all comes from the Head Coach. The right Head Coach in any sport is often more important then anything else. In the NFL, it is everything. We got ourselves a 'Iceman". And he brought a friend who helped us decide if we should draft Tannehill and was our poor OC. But he is gone and been replaced by maybe the best hire in the NFL, Bill Lazor.
So we now seem to have a good HC and a good OC and DC.
After watching us line up for years in the exact same places and formations was maddening. Now we set up everywhere, move everywhere, attack everywhere. I'm feeling it.
:rob19:
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