Will Commanders Be Better Tacklers Under Quinn?
JP posits that we still haven't seen what this defense is capable of because Jon Allen, Daron Payne, and Bobby Wagner did not see a snap in the preseason.
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00:00We haven't seen John Allen, Deron Payne,
00:04or Bobby Wagner on the field for this defense yet.
00:07I think those three men can make a tremendous difference.
00:14I think those, I think two of those three men
00:18are going to have to play a certain level
00:20if we are going to get better play
00:22out of those guys that you're concerned about.
00:24Because I think it's very easy to blame the secondary
00:27when you're not getting pressure up front.
00:30If they get some pressure up front,
00:31I guarantee you the secondary will look better
00:33than what they are.
00:34I'm not saying that they're good.
00:35But the consistent pressure up front for years.
00:39It's football one-on-one.
00:40For the last four or five years,
00:42all we talk about is off the edges.
00:44You know where you can do it at?
00:46There's a guy who we consider the best in football,
00:48he retired, number 99, Aaron Donald, right?
00:51Where does he come from?
00:52Inside.
00:53And I guarantee he gets as much pressure
00:54as any of those other guys.
00:56Then we got another guy right down there in Kansas City,
01:00Chris Jones, where does he rush from?
01:02Inside.
01:02Inside.
01:03And he still gets double-digit sacks
01:05and he disrupts everything.
01:07We have to get that level of play
01:08from our interior guys on defense
01:10and that changes it up for everybody.
01:12Agree, I totally agree.
01:13I don't know that we will.
01:15You certainly hope that that's what happens.
01:18But there is a massive factor in all this
01:20that I think has really, really been a problem
01:24in the run game.
01:27We're talking about football one-on-one.
01:28We're going even more basic.
01:30We're going to football elementary school.
01:31They've been bad tacklers.
01:33Yeah.
01:34And Bobby Wagner might not be the same player
01:37he was 10 years ago.
01:39But he's a tackle.
01:41He's a very short tackler.
01:43Watching Sammer still.
01:45And he is super active in the run game.
01:47He is a hitter, like a thumper, downhill.
01:53Jeremy Chin, I don't know that Jeremy Chin
01:58is a really capable cover guy.
02:01I think there are real questions
02:04when there's good backs and tight ends on the other side
02:06about some of the folks that are going to be forced
02:08into coverage roles.
02:09But I think in the run game,
02:11this unit is built much better.
02:15And that, you know what makes life a lot easier
02:20for a pass rusher trying to get the edge?
02:21Jamin Davis trying to learn
02:23what the hell he's doing from the edge?
02:24Third and eight instead of third and four.
02:26Like, let's see, if you can be a good tackling team,
02:30maybe it limits the ease with which a team
02:33could go down the field.