Old friends reuniting in Denver?

[countryboi]

the 2 DC the denver has had under Fox are light years better than the also-rans we had when Fox was a panther....meeks is the only one i liked

[The Saw]

Good for Jack.

As long as he isn't a head coach.

[DoWorkBson]

the 2 DC the denver has had under Fox are light years better than the also-rans we had when Fox was a panther....meeks is the only one i liked

Del Rio light years better then Del Rio???????? Btw Meeks sucked!

[Mr. Scot]

Not sure who you mean when you talk bout 2 DCs under Fox in Denver. He's only been there one year.

There is an odd sort of symmetry in the fact that in both of his head coaching jobs, Fox lost his DC to a head coaching opportunity after just one year.

[CatMan72]

Now if they can just find a QB.

[frash.exe]

Denver's D-line is just as good, if not better than ours was back then.

no they aren't

That D is already nasty as Hell.

i wouldn't describe a defense that gave up 40+ points 5 times overall this past season nasty as hell

[Pimpdaddy]

Regardless of what we were running, the defense sure did get after the quarterback when Del Rio was the DC. Denver's defense will likely improve next year.

They'll have to improve. You know how Foxy likes to set on a 3 point lead....

[Mr. Scot]

Well, word is that it's happening.

This oughtta be interesting :lurk5:

[The Saw]

Good luck to Jack.

[jtnc]

Has anyone seen Del Rio's defense rankings in his tenure at Jax? He's nothing special. When he was in Carolina he lucked up on defensive studs.

[DoWorkBson]

You under estimate how good ruck was for that 3 or 4 year stretch. Yeah Peppers made him better, but do you remember the 05 playoff game against the Giants? Osi cam out talking poo about how he and strahan were so much better the Ruck and Pep. They dominated that game.

[Keith Moons Liver]

Del Rio = cover 2

Panthers no longer cover 2

Doesn't look like we run much of any sort of organized defense out there.

[frash.exe]

I still think so. Elvis Dumervil/Von Miller is a better combo than Peppers/Buckner.

it's an arguable point that they are

Peppers was a freak, but both of the DEs in Denver are much better than Rucker was. Probably a push between the 2 teams since Carolina had better DTs.

2006 Mike Rucker was better than Robert Ayers is right now

And 40+ points a game just happens sometimes. There is not much you can do about it with today's new NFL rules.

5 times is more than 1/4 of 18 games. You think that qualifies as once in a blue moon?

Every team got torched at least once this season, including Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

Neither Pittsburgh's nor Baltimore's defenses gave up one 40 burger this season. How are they comparable to a team that gave up 5?

Denver is still able to apply a huge amount of pressure on the QB and create turnovers in the secondary(just like Carolina did in 03 and 05),

9 interceptions

Compare that to 16, 26, and 23 interceptions in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively

which is what you have to do in order to beat finesse teams like NO, NE and DET.

they were 0-3 against two of those teams in blowout losses this season. They were also blown out against Green Bay, another team with an elite QB. The QB ratings in those games? 130.8, 117.3, 137.6, and 134.5 with a 15-2 TD/INT ratio.

Denver's problem was that they didnt have a good enough offense to capitalize on the Turnovers.

Their defense wasn't great at creating turnovers.

[charlottenian]

this man knows Defense