Patrick Graham - DC

You better do it if I'm right too!

 

I hope he does.

 

I honestly don't know if it makes him better or not... Just thought I would share. Sometimes its easy to look at the stats and think he's not good, but the people who watched his defenses everyday think otherwise. Its more an fyi than anything.

 

Hope y'all are right

 

He does have a scheme, his scheme is just less married to a certain defensive front. He can run 3 man and 4 man fronts (and often uses both). He's highly "adaptive" and his system is predicated on pre-snap disguise often using "simulated pressures" to mask coverage intentions. He doesn't blitz a ton, but when he does, he prefers overload blitzes for one on one opportunities. He likes two deep safeties a lot, and he also employs a "light box" of 6 players generally more often than most other DC's.

I think what the poster meant by "doesn't have a scheme" he means he isn't a hardline 4-3 "wide 9" like Schwartz or a set 3-4 zone blitz scheme like LeBeau was. He is adaptive in his fronts and will utilize what works best for his personnel. His coverage schemes and "light box" deployment are going to be the part that stays consistent.

The intriguing part for me is that it seems to be an easier scheme for DB's which is good, since having a better secondary will be awesome. Allowing our DB's to make more plays to help Porter out will be helpful. Peezy is our best player in the secondary by a lot, and some added help back there would be great. I wonder if he will allow Porter to follow the 1's. That will be interesting to see.

In a perfect world, our pass rushers and IDL win the 5 man rush opportunities allowing us to drop extra guys and cover our bases in the pass game. We might actually have a solid personnel package to play his defense well. Good edge rushers that we will rely on to win 1v1's and Heyward and Harmon on the inside doing their thing. Might send an ILB at some point too. I would think our secondary will improve a good bit.

 

That’s crazy talk. They better resign him that would be foolish. This new DC will play ,an.

 

Well I like the idea of disguising. He needs to develop the ilb’s and we definitely need to upgrade at Safety and Nickel Back.

I don’t like giving up long drives that is exactly what Tomlins defenses did. Grahams defense was 14th in yards allowed last year. That doesn’t sound like a defense that gives up a lot of long drives, especially one that was on the field a lot because they had the worst offense.