Defensive passing TD's allowed last season

[panther4life]

Subscribed to NFL game pass this to refresh my memory on last season. Decided to go back and watch every passing TD allowed on defense. In some cases I couldn't clearly attribute the blame on a specific player but the times I could I bolded the players name.

Week 3 vs the saints.

•  5 yard pass to Michael Thomas in vs  1 on 1 man coverage out wide vs Worley.  Worley fell down into Thomas and drew a pass interference penalty that was declined as well.
• 11 yard pass to Brandon Coleman, Shaq bumped him at los as he bit on playaction, Worley bit as well and let him get behind him for the easy score.
•  40 yard pass to Ginn out of the slot vs Bradberry in press coverage with both safeties playing deep zone (Colemans side) both safeties spied on the outside routes and were not in position to help

Week 4 vs the Pats 

Both passing TD's were 1 and 2 yard passes in the middle of the endzone on quick crossing routes against zone defense. 1st play Mike Adams was the closest in coverage and Colin Jones was the closest on the 2nd.

Week 5 vs the Lions

• 4 yard pass to Darren Fells vs Mike Adams in man coverage. Stafford scrambled to his right to extend the play, Adams stuck with him but Fells just snatched the ball for the TD.
• 20 yard pass on an out route to Fells again vs Shaq Thompson in man coverage. It was over for Shaq the second fells made his cut to the outside

Week 6 vs the Eagles

• 1 Yard pass to Zach Ertz on a quick slant in the back of endzone vs Worley in man coverage
• 17 Yard pass to Ertz again on a post route vs Adams who was sitting back in coverage.
• 24 yard pass vs Shaq on a quick dig route. Once he made his cut shaq couldn't recover and he sprinted into the endzone untouched up the middle

Week 9 vs the Falcons

• 6 yard pass to Sanu out of slot on quick out vs Worley in man coverage
• 19 yard pass on quick bubble screen to Tevin Coleman with 5 wide, vs cover 2 man. Multiple offenders here, Davis was matched up against him but Lukes guy cut in to block TD out of play, Luke was then blocked out of the play by the RG, then the final safety net Kurt Coleman allowed himself to get blocked out of the play by the center.

Week 10 vs Dolphins

• 2 yard shovel pass to Julius Thomas, multiple offenders and good play design. Thomas was originally in right slot and Davis was in man coverage vs him, just before the snap Thomas motioned in the backfield, took a quick shovel pass to the left in for a TD. Luke tried to cut in for the tackle but missed, Addison lost contain on him and Shaq couldn't come off his guy in time,as he didn't make contact til Thomas was already in the endzone.
• 10 yard pass to Landry who improvised on Cutler rollout to his right. It was vs a zone defense, above Munnerlyn and looked like it was ultimately Mayo's responsibility to be there but he was late reacting to it.

Week 12 vs Jets

• 33 yard pass to Robbie Anderson vs Bradberry and Adams. Bradberry had him in man against the sideline with Adams providing help to the inside over the top. This one seems slightly more on Adams as Bradberry had him covered to the outside and Adams caught up to them and had the inside covered for the last 10 yards of the route but couldn't get in position to make a play on the ball. 
• 54 yard pass to Robbie Anderson vs Coleman. Mccown rolled out to the right and pointed to the endzone, Anderson juked Coleman and made the wide open catch in the endzone. Coleman was alone in the coverage as we were in cover 2 D and that was the only deep route.
• 2 yard pass to Jermaine Kearse vs Seymour. Blown coverage on the play by someone else as well as 16 ended up wide open in the endzone as well. 

Week 13 vs Saints

• 10 yard pass to Michael Thomas vs Davis in cover 2 defense. Thomas was lined up in slot vs 4-3 defense. Davis dropped back but let him slip past him as he was trying to read Brees. Adams was behind him and could have provided better help but couldn't get there either.

Week 14 vs Vikings

• 18 Yard pass to Kyle Rudolph vs Adams. Looks like we were in a zone defense but it was clear Rudolph was Adams responsibility and he played him fairly tight but just allowed the pass right above his head as Rudolph caught a bullet right between Adams outstretched arms and just above his helmet.
• 52 yard pass to Thielen. Multiple offenders here as Thielen came out of the left slot and after a quick fake to the outside broke in vs Munnerlyn and Keenum dropped it right  in between Captain and Luke. Adams was too late to react in time to make a play on the ball or immediate tackle. As he cuts up field towards Coleman's side of the field, Coleman is pancake blocked out of the play and trips up Adams who was the closest one in pursuit before he crossed the goal line.

Week 15 vs Packers

• 13 yard pass to Davante Adams vs Coleman. We are in man, a late motion to the right caused everyone on the right to pick up a different man. Coleman gave a good cushion and got embarrassed on a corner route when Adams cut to the inside and was wide open in the endzone.
• 33 yard pass to Cobb vs Seymour. They were matched up in the left slot. TD blitzed on the other side of the formation and Luke dropped back to cover the middle of the field. Cobb went on short crossing route to the right, once he got to the middle Seymour quit running with him, I guess he assumed Luke we take him from there, then Rodgers baits Kuechly in as he starts to scramble forward. Rodgers passed it to Cobb just as Luke came back to the los. Cobb ended up with a wide open path to the endzone making both Bradberry and Coleman miss at the last second.
• 24 yard pass to Richard Rodgers vs Coleman . Cover 2 scheme again, he was line up in the slot to the right side, Luke covered the underneath portion of his route, Coleman had the deep responsibility but failed miserably as Rodgers made the easy catch running right up the seam and wide open in the endzone.

Week 16 vs Bucs

• 18 yard pass to Bobo Wilson vs Worley in man coverage. Simple route where he ran straight to the endzone, then as Winston stepped up in the pocket, he cut to the right and got open in the process for an easy uncontested catch. 

Week 17 vs Falcons

• 19 yard pass to Freeman on quick pass up the middle. Zone defense, Ryan found him all alone at the 15 yard line, 2 players closest to him on the field were Worley and Adams(blocked out of the way) but neither could react in time to prevent the score.

Wildcard vs Saints

• 80 yard pass to Ginn vs zone blitz. We had Adams lined up in the box and came on the blitz. Bradberry was covering the right side of the field but nobody ran a route to the outside. Coleman was the single high safety and was lined up against Ginn with a deep cushion. Coleman came up and took a poor angle on him which allowed Ginn to blow right by him. Bradberry reacted as his side of the field in the zone d was vacant. He almost caught up to him and fell to the ground in a desperate attempt to make a play on the ball, meanwhile Coleman just chased him right into the endzone. This play is on Coleman.
• 9 yard pass to Hill vs blown coverage. Saints came out in jumbo goaline package with an extra offensive lineman.  Pretty much everyone sold out on the run(appeared to be the play call/design) and after a quick playaction fake Hill slipped into the endzone wide open. Possible it was Worley's responsibility to hang back and he bit on the playaction.

In summary we gave up 25 regular season passing TD's last year. 27 including the wildcard game.

Of the 21 I feel comfortable blaming primarily on 1 player, heres the breakdown:

• Worley 5
• Coleman 4
• Adams 4
• Shaq 2
• Seymour 2
• Davis 1
• Bradberry 1
• Mayo 1
• Jones 1

Other things worth noting and quick thoughts:

• Worley led the team with 6 defensive penalties, not including the 3 that were declined.
• Suprised Bradberry was only involved in 3 TD's given up, 2 of which depending on the coverage called weren't on him. He was on the field more than anyone as well with 99% of defensive snaps played
• Also surprising I couldn't pin a single TD solely on Captain even tho he played 39% of the snaps.
• Worley did all his damage in only 73% of the snaps, while Seymour did his in 32% of the snaps
• Adams was our highest graded secondary player by PFF but based on TD's allowed alone I wouldn't agree with that.

Knowing that we managed to go 11-5 with that secondary, plus Cams new arsenal of weapons and players returning from injury I am starting to feel pretty optimistic about this year. 

[1989]

Great stuff! Glad to see Worley go.

[musicman]

Good intel. Thx

[saX man]

Nice thread.  Good content.  

[Panthers8969]

Everyone know the “boo this man” gif? Replace the word boo with pie and that’s how I feel about this post. Good stuff OP

[mc52beast]

If the secondary can at least be average I think we’ll be ok. Hurney has got a nice group on offense and Turner will actually know what to do with everyone. If we weren’t in the NFCS I would be pretty confident in winning another division title, gonna be tough

[Rags]

this is refreshing, good poo.

We survived with Melvin White and Drayton Florence at CB. I'm much more optimistic about this group of CBs talent than that grous.

[Snake]

2 hours ago, Rags said:

this is refreshing, good poo.

We survived with Melvin White and Drayton Florence at CB. I'm much more optimistic about this group of CBs talent than that grous.

Yeah and our Dline was worse at that point. We have the potential to have a very potent Offense that could drop 40 on people this year given the chance. With a defense that will at least give up less than 27.

[Khyber53]

That's some excellent work OP!

Bradberry did well, and that was expected of him. I was really surprised to see that both Captain and Jones were nowhere near as bad as they've been talked up here on The Huddle. 

Also to note is there were games with no TD passes against us, which is pretty impressive. And only the Jets, Dolphins and Bucs got TD passes against us with non-elite QBs. The rest came from teams with solid passing games.

If you had to pick a weak link, Worley really stands out, but I think our cover scheme wasn't as well designed as it needed to be. This is my big worry here in not bringing in a new Defensive Coordinator from outside the system. It's not going to be popular to say it but we keep using the same system year after year and it's being led and implemented by someone that was lower and lower on the coaching tree one, two years before. At this rate, we'll have a junior equipment manager running the defense in 2020.

[shaqattaq]

1 hour ago, Khyber53 said:

Bradberry did well, and that was expected of him. I was really surprised to see that both Captain and Jones were nowhere near as bad as they've been talked up here on The Huddle. 

If the nickel gets burned, there's a better chance that one of the other corners or a safety prevents the TD. So just because Capt didn't give up many TD's doesn't mean that he didn't get beat often. Hopefully, he rebounds this year, he's been really good in the past.

[panther4life]

1 hour ago, Khyber53 said:

That's some excellent work OP!

Bradberry did well, and that was expected of him. I was really surprised to see that both Captain and Jones were nowhere near as bad as they've been talked up here on The Huddle. 

Thanks, to be fair TD’s only accounted for just over 400 yards of the passing yards we allowed. That still leaves 3200 successful passing yards against us that did not result in TD’s that needs to be accounted for. 

[My Goodness My Guinness]

Damn if huddle gold was a thing OP deserves it. It's a little difficult to pin these on single players with a zone scheme, but I agree with most of this. I would also have to guess that Cap didn't have a TD given up because we usually ran our heavy scheme near the goal line, which would take a way quite a bit of opportunities for him to screw up. 

[Khyber53]

25 minutes ago, panther4life said:

Thanks, to be fair TD’s only accounted for just over 400 yards of the passing yards we allowed. That still leaves 3200 successful passing yards against us that did not result in TD’s that needs to be accounted for. 

How many of those ended up in rushing TDs? If you give up a lot of passing yards between the 20s but scoring is down, then the bend don't break idea is golden.

If, however, they're just running willy nilly over you and rushing for even more touchdowns, then your vaunted defense might actually just be a paper tiger.

 

[panther4life]

9 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

How many of those ended up in rushing TDs? If you give up a lot of passing yards between the 20s but scoring is down, then the bend don't break idea is golden.

If, however, they're just running willy nilly over you and rushing for even more touchdowns, then your vaunted defense might actually just be a paper tiger.

 

Surprisingly we only allowed 7 rushing TD's last year. 

1. 21 yards by Kamara week 3 vs Saints
2. 8 yards by Dion Lewis week 4 vs Pats
3. 1 yard by Zach Zenner week 10 vs Lions
4. 66 yards by Kenyan Drake week 12 vs Dolphins
5. 2 yards  by Kamara week 13 vs saints
6. 3 yards by Ingram week 13 vs saints
7. 20 yards by Kamara week 13 vs saints.

Thats is for the regular season.  Thats 11 games without allowing a rushing TD!! Outside of the 2 saints games we only gave up 4 rushing TD's the whole year. Of course Kamara added another against us in the wildcard game. So in 17 games Kamara accounted for 50% of the 8 rushing TD's allowed in 17 games. Thats a pretty strong statement for our front 7. Not to mention I recall us stonewalling teams on multiple 4th and short attempts last year. Officially we gave up 7 of 20 4th down attempts. 

Lastly when looking at the stats we tied for third in fewest amount of rushing TD's and were alone at 3rd with 1409 rushing yards allowed on the season.