Football Grump

Yeah, it's our favorite weekend of the year.

It's our home away from home, and every single time we come here, we're in a new home.

This one is the best home by far, I think.

It's early and we'll have to see it, but from everything that we've looked into, it sounds to me like Denard Wilson is the perfect blend of defensive coordinators that I like.

He's had a varied background.

We're going to get into all this stuff in depth, but he seems like a good blend of Wink Martindale and Patrick Graham to me, right?

Like somebody who likes to put pressure on the opposing quarterback to

in terms of varied looks and also with that Patrick Graham of disguised coverages in the back end and make quarterbacks do a lot more post-snap, which is sort of what Wink Martindale did, but that was always with an emphasis on bringing pressure from exotic places, which we don't know yet if that's going to be what we saw because Denard Wilson didn't really do a lot of that in Tennessee, but then also the roster there was severely lacking on the defensive side of the ball, especially in the back half, which really limits when you...

You really just can't blitz out of control like that.

So but yeah, I mean, a guy with a very diverse background, you know, went through, you know, Greg Williams, Todd Bowles as our premier influences for him.

And those are very attacking style defensive coordinators.

But then also was with Jonathan Gannon, which is not really that situation.

Whether as defensive coordinator, Denard Wilson has enough time to fully teach DBs to do this stuff, because a lot of this stuff is going to be on the back end.

A lot of the communication stuff and the understanding and being able to read the concept as it's happening and kind of

you know, react to it and peel off and trust your, the guys around you to be in the right spot and pick up the right thing and, and see the same thing that you're seeing that trust.

And is that, that's all going to be in the backend.

And, and really we have plenty of evidence of Denard Wilson as a DB coach in Philly and in Baltimore, you know, of that working, right?

Like you, you, you put him with Marlon Humphrey and, and Kyle Hamilton in Baltimore and you can see it working.

You put them with James Bradbury and CJ Gardner Johnson and,

and Darius Slay in Philadelphia, and you see it working.