Defensively Speaking

[BooksOrangePlanet]

27th overall - 24th in passing - 29th in points allowed - only 5 teams allowed more yards per game - i could go on but it all adds up to arizona's defense being ranked 30th in the nfl this season before the season even starts

defense is how you win championships - this is why nobody is predicting any cardinal wins - not just because we're in the nfc west but because last year was a crap fest

but let the record show - our defense was doing more with less (as far as talent goes) a couple years ago - one could say we were kicking ass - we weren't allowing touchdowns for whole ass games and then we basically went defense in the entire draft - it was all supposed to be so gravy last year

injuries were a factor sure - but it all flat-lined when gannon changed the defensive philosophy (which we've gone over) refusing to send more than four on first and second downs

rallis doesn't make that change without gannon's say so - but considering rallis is still here and gannon isn't - i'm pretty freakin sure it was gannon who made the (devastating) change

the pressure became to much - gannon went from playing to win to playing not to lose - we all saw the extremely frustrating difference

our defense was so trash we couldn't enjoy our newly found offense with our defense crippling any chance of glory

and here's another thing - arizona has gobs of talent on defense and it's thanks to monti ossenfort - monti trusts rallis to get the most out of his draft picks for a reason - that reason is aggressiveness

our defense produced zero touchdowns last year - because that's what sending 4 gets you

if you ask me we're the only team in the nfl that shouldn't give af this year - we should just wreck everyone - blitz blitz blitz - don't send 5 send 6 - budda choosing his gaps up the middle - we need to get back at it man

we were literally wrecking teams a couple years ago but couldn't score to save our lives - then it flip flopped dramatically

my thoughts are this - rallis wanted to stay - he could've gotten on somewhere elsewhere (and out of arizona) but i'm guessing he knows how good this defense should have been last year

no crazy predictions this morning aside from significant improvement - i think we're going the murder route again - i hope so - i still got the memes

 

[kerouac9]

arizona has gobs of talent on defense and it's thanks to monti ossenfort

I think we all needed a good laugh this morning. Thank you.

 

[BooksOrangePlanet]

I think we all needed a good laugh this morning. Thank you.

i'd laugh at what you write but you don't write anymore - you somehow self promoted yourself to this (highly admired) poo poo critic thing you got going on - so i'll just laugh at that

 

[THESMEL]

I didn’t see a reason to keep the dc, beyond laziness to hire one, bc gone, km gone, but here we are, I think we have talent, enough to compete in the nfcw, if it can stay healthy. Big influx last year, heading into year 2, did CC make a lasting impression last year? Secondary could be great? Better if we get a multiplayer pass rush. Still have to find a way to stop the run and Te’s tearing us a new hole. Seems DC has the same plan with tweeks, hope Simon holds up, think he can hold the middle.