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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.BB's soft zone defenses are going to give up a lot of passing yards, especially in outside the red zone, however once an opponenet gets inside our red zone, the defense is supposed to tighten up.
2 things that can improve our pass defense:
1.) Put Mayo on the bench during passing situations.
2.) Pass Rush! We desperately need a pass rush demon, a Ware or Merriman type player coming off the edge. The NT is the most important part of a 3-4 defense and the second is the demon coming off the edge.
They better start "getting it" soon. The Donks come to town in a little over a week. How the heck are they going to cover Brandon Marshall??!!
I would agree the defense has issues after essentially five bad quarters of play (all of Miami and a quarter against San Fran), but this is over 4 games. 2005 was nowhere near this good for a stretch as the team showed an inability to stop the running game and passing game in several consecutive games ending in blowouts (take a look at the Chargers and Colts games that year - those were genuine nightmares, worse than the Miami game).
As for dismissing the QBs of the Niners, Jets and Chiefs, who have those QBs beaten this year? Who have the Dolphins beaten? You cannot have it both ways, saying the defense blows because of competition it has faced while saying the Bolts and Donkeys are good teams, or extremely talented teams if not good.
Add me to the group that thinks it's still too early to rate this D. Yes, they do need to get better pressure from the Front Seven, but I'm willing to wait past mid-season to see if there's continued improvement.