I spoke with Demarcus Ayers who said the defense was much better at disguising looks in camp. Tell me more about that.
Over the years a whole lot of teams matched up against us and saw what we were doing. Now we’re stacking guys behind each other more – we’re not letting the offense see what we’re doing. And behind that the Cover 2 makes us better.
We’re moving to the ball faster, too. We’re not lining up at the last second and not moving into position until the last minute. We’re also not allowing anything up the middle. People said our defense was soft last year, but that was just because teams changed the pace on us and ran the ball in pass formations. But we’re ready for that now and we’re much faster on defense.
And how do you fix the slot issues?
The short pass killed us last year – the slot is where teams beat us. We’re taking away the inside and forcing teams to beat us on the outside. We played a lot of taller, faster receivers and teams didn’t really stretch the field against us. Now, we’re going to force them to try – make them go downfield. We have longer, lankier cornerbacks to cover those guys and can use those new guys to cover the slot guys better. We can bring the safety up or let the corners play the slot. This year we got the slot guys we need in the draft – both guys are exceptional.
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Originally Posted by ALLD
