I know it's preseason, but is our defense really this good?

[Fox007]

It's preseason. Which means

1. No/very little gameplanning. This is especially important, say that your free safety is the weak link on your defense. The offense would run routes to try to match their playmakers up against your weakest guy exposing chinks in your defense.

2. It's not starters vs starters so defense rank does not matter in preseason. Starters play what? half, a quarter or a game? sometimes only a few series? And the rest is 2nd and 3rd string vs 2nd and third string with a few exceptions.

Who was the #1 defense in preseason in 2009, and how well did their defense do during the regular season?

Edit:

It was Baltimore for AFC in total defense and Minnesota for the NFC.

Jets were top 5 though.

Still those other two were good defensive teams during the regular season after a solid preseason.

[Baschski]

It's true that offenses aren't game planning to beat the defense, but when our starters manhandle other team's starters, that's a good indicator of what's to come. Our D-line trashing the Titans O-line and eating Chris Johnson is just our guys beating their guys. Not much game-planning involved there.

[Delhommey]

Greg Hardy chasing down Chris Johnson and Everette Brown getting a sack/fumble on a three man rush tell me what I need to know.

[Fox007]

Greg Hardy chasing down Chris Johnson and Everette Brown getting a sack/fumble on a three man rush tell me what I need to know.

I agree, for me what I see on the field tells me more than stats ever could.

[koolkatluke]

We are getting good pass rush without blitzing you can't fake that. Plus the LB are not getting killed by TE's and pass too RB out of the back field.

Also our Dline is good pass rush against some pretty good Olines.

Jets, Ravens, and Tenn have some good olines and we still got too the QB.

[top dawg]

I'll tell you what. The panthers DST was on waivers in my nfl.com fantasy league. I picked them up this past Friday. I Know what we have.

[ChucktownK]

forget top 10, we're going to be a top 5 if this is real.

these guys are amazing. these guys have really rallied around the loss of peppers and now that they are no longer standing in his shadow, they are getting a chance to shine. :cornut:

The way I see it, with all the interchangeable parts and capable backups that relieve the starters on a down-by-down basis...

Hellz yeah!