Wow...Ron Meeks is 32nd?

[Kognan]

"32. Ron Meeks / Panthers — Meeks was let go by Jim Caldwell in Indianapolis, and his simple approach forced head coach John Fox to become more involved in the defense and find ways to take advantage of Julius Peppers and a ball-hawking secondary. SCOUT'S TAKE: "He's not a proven commodity as a defensive coordinator. John Fox made some bad choices adding to his staff and has ended up having to overcoach himself. The run defense was a problem for Meeks when he was in Indy — it was too vanilla — and little has changed (since he arrived) in Carolina."

http://www.profootballweekly.com/2010/01/04/ranking-the-defensive-coordinators

[Zod]

Completely assinine

[bLACKpANTHER]

... his simple approach forced head coach John Fox to become more involved in the defense and find ways to take advantage of Julius Peppers and a ball-hawking secondary.Fox has ended up having to overcoach himself.

is this bs or sumthin i have been oblivious to?

[Guild]

So...

Have we been watching Meek's defense or Fox's defense at the end of the season?

Hmmm... same players as last year minus injuries. Much better results. Same HC new DC. What do you think?

[jramsey4]

WTF is he smoking?

[KSpan]

Wow... don't even know what to say here. Meeks is at LEAST a Top 20 coordinator, probably a Top 15. WTF was this guy looking at?

[TrueBlackandBlue]

i don't know about 32nd... but it does seem that meeks' system relies on having the best athletes consistently making outstanding plays on their own. At the end of the season it started to work. But the schemes and positions he puts the players in does seem vanilla and simple for the offense to understand.

[Cat]

How can they put a DC at 32 when his defense finished 8th in the league in total defense.

[Guild]

i don't know about 32nd... but it does seem that meeks' system relies on having the best athletes consistently making outstanding plays on their own. At the end of the season it started to work. But the schemes and positions he puts the players in does seem vanilla and simple for the offense to understand.

Good thing Meeks has a system that makes use of our stellar big play making athletes eh?

We could still have that Trgovac soft zone that makes it so that even the stellar athletes are rarely in a position to make a play.

[mr beauxjangles]

Dick LeBeau isn't in the top five. This guy is on the weed.

[jramsey4]

Dick LeBeau isn't the top five. This guy is on the weed.

Thats an insult to the intelligence of potheads.

[Guild]

Thats an insult to the intelligence of potheads.

Indeed.

The author is clearly high on Vulture Brains and prescription meds, not weed.

[X-Clown]

Dan Morgan did say that Fox has his finger on everything in the organization, and that he's taken over the defense in the past when things aren't working so I guess it wouldn't completely surprise me if there was some degree of truth to this statement. However, calling him worse than the Giants or Lions D-Coordinators is laughable.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

Two spots above Meeks is Bill Sheridan, who was fired after turning one of the league's best defenses into one that saw teams score more than 40 points on them several times last season.

Meeks, on the other hand, fielded a top ten defense that only improved as the season went on, despite injuries to several key players.

What a completely ignorant choice for the worst defensive coordinator in the league.