Dennis Allen

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732 appearances 32 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Full Show — May 11, 2026 · 11 May 2026 podcast

And I think when you look at things, the first thing you have to look at is, okay, what could I have done better?

And then what could we as a staff have done better?

And we had a lot of discussions, you know, this offseason about a lot of different things.

And one of the things that we identified was, you know, me, we focused so much on installing all the scheme,

last year because it was brand new.

And we do have a high volume of things that we carry in the defense.

And we focus so much on that that we lost sight of some of the fundamentals and techniques that it takes to function, to do those things.

And I don't think we were as fundamentally sound defensively as we need to be.

So how do we have to coach it better?

Well, let's minimize how much we're focused on the scheme, okay, and let's focus on not what we're going to do but how we're going to do it.

And I think that's how we're going to improve.

And, you know, you look across the board at all three levels of the defense, and I just feel like –

You go in and you watch it, and in some ways you're disappointed because it doesn't look exactly like you want it to look.

But you're also really encouraged because if we can get better at those fundamentals and techniques on all three levels of our defense, how much can we really improve?

And so I think that was a big part of what we do in the offseason.

We'll have the same discussions next year.

You know, and it's still going to come back to how can we coach it better?

How can we teach it better?

All right, how can we help our players reach their maximum potential?

And I think any time, if you look at it any differently, I just don't know how you're going to have a lot of success.

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