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Now 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:45.680 let check your pulse if not furt of what is up? 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.800 Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:55.120 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.360 How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.040 And on today's show, the Vic Fangio episode, we're breaking 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.840 down Miami's big time hire at defensive coordinator. We'll tell 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.440 you about his resume, his accomplishments and rankings over the years, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.800 the bones of the defense, and what it looks like 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.280 from a numbers perspective. We'll get some testimonials and bring 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.800 in a closer to wrap it up. For the fine 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.520 details on the Fangio scheme, Sean Sayed wrote a banger 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.399 of a deep dive up on the read optional about 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.600 the Fangio defense and how it's made its way across 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.000 the National Football League. We'll get to know the newest 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.000 member of the Miami staff here on the podcast from 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.080 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:43.920 This is it is oficial. Vic Fangio will be the 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:48.639 next defensive coordinator of your Miami Dolphins, and he brings 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.280 with him a very, very impressive resume. Let's start there. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.360 In this deep dive edition of the podcast. We're putting 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.200 the season review series on hold for the day. Let's 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.840 go ahead and start with his resume and it goes 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.279 back to nineteen seventy nine. It's almost a decade before 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.440 I was born, when he was the linebackers coach and 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.200 eventually defensive coordinator at his alma mater, Dunmore High School 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.520 in Pennsylvania. He then moved on to an academy high school, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.040 Milford Academy in Connecticut to be the DC there in 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.960 nineteen eighty two. In nine eighty three, he was the 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.720 North Carolina graduate assistant and then eighty four eighty five 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.040 he jumped to the USFL and the Philadelphia slash Baltimore 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.160 Stars as their defensive assistant. Then he made the move 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.680 to the NFL Saints linebackers from eighty six to ninety four. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.600 He was in the Panthers defensive coordinator from ninety five 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.000 to ninety eight before moving to that same position with 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.760 the Colts from ninety nine to oh one. Took the 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.960 same position for the Texans two thousand and two to 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.959 oh five. He stayed in the same division there a 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.680 few times. You see that from a NFC Central to 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.240 the AFC Central or AFC South. Eventually, with the twos 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.480 and Texans from six to oh eight, he was the 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.120 Ravens special assistant to the head coach slash defensive assistant. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.480 He took the linebacker's job for the Ravens and oh 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.920 nine and then twenty ten went back to the college 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.120 game to be the defensive coordinator at Stanford, working with 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.720 Jim Harbaugh. Then he followed Harbaugh to the forty nine 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.919 Ers job, where he was a DC for four years 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.120 there before signing on to the same position with the 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.079 Chicago Bears from twenty fifteen to twenty eight team. Then 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.400 he finally gets his head coaching gig twenty nineteen, twenty 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.079 twenty one the Broncos head coach, and this last year 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.239 he spent with the Philadelphia Eagles. Fans of the office 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.800 will find this cool. He played at Dunmore High School 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.080 when he was a high schooler just outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.320 and then he eventually became the assistant to the head coach, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.520 so kind of a Dwight Shrewt moved there. He moved 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.680 to a different high school in eighty two that year 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.279 before the one year in college and then the USFL 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.320 and then of course makes the jump back to the pros. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.200 And what does he do besides coach a room that 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.440 earns a nickname. You understand how good a position group 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.000 has to be to get a nickname. Legion of Boom, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.160 the Purple People Eaters. He had the Dome Patrol in 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.760 New Orleans. Over his nine aggregate years there in New Orleans, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.280 the Saints ranked fifth in yards per game with three 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.960 hundred yards per game. They were fourth in scoring again 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.880 over those nine years eighteen point one points per game, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.080 and they were third and sacks with four hundred and 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.080 eight and tied for third with three hundred and thirty 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.560 six takeaways. Then he gets his first defensive coordinator job 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.119 and he helps take the expansion Panthers to the NFC 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.360 title game in year two of its existence. Then onto 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.679 the Colts where he worked under Jim Mora. This guy's 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.640 been with like every coach you can think of. He 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.800 goes to the Texans and run his defense under Dom 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.640 Capers before heading up to Baltimore to coach Ray Lewis 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.920 in an All Pro two thousand and nine season. Then 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.000 we mentioned the six years with Jim Harbaugh, and he 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.840 goes up to Chicago and Harbaugh left for Michigan. There 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.680 he worked with John Fox, and when John Fox was relieved, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.760 Fangio became the first Bears defensive coordinator to stay on 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.200 under a new head coach and go to the next 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.960 regime with a three year extension since Buddy Ryan stayed 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.520 on with Mike Ditka in nineteen eighty two. Then rookie 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.120 head coach Matt Nagy gave full control of the Fangio 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.800 defense Perer story I was reading earlier before I put 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.360 this podcast together. Full control of the defense, and he 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.599 repaid that by leading the NFL in turnovers in twenty 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.520 eighteen with thirty six and the most interceptions with twenty 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.840 seven that season. Man, if we can get anywhere close 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.480 to those numbers in terms of takeaways, that's you in 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.440 the division. Like, if you flipped that this year with 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.239 the Dolphins offense this year, you would have won the division. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.240 For that effort, Fangio was named Assistant Coach of the 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.359 Year by the Pro Football Writers of America and the 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.159 same honor a few weeks later from the Associated Press 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.400 that led to his first head coaching job with the 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.239 Denver Broncos. Let's go ahead and circle back and focus 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.120 on his time from twenty eleven and on from the 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.640 Niners Bears to Broncos. His last eight years as a 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.200 DC that combines the Niners and Bears jobs, he had 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.960 a defense that finished in the top five four times 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.200 of total defense and the top ten six times in 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.360 total defense that ahead of his appointment as the headman 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.039 in Denver, and those defenses he had there were very 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:06.320 good too. They essentially still were the same remnants of 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.640 what he built this past season. That was a championship 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.160 defense in twenty twenty two, constructed by Vic Fangio, you know, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.719 after a few years putting it together there to put 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.720 together for a new staff of this season, and if 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.160 the Denver offense this year was even just average, then 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.360 that would have been a team we're watching into the postseason. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.200 Where the Broncos went in the right direction this offseason 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.120 was bringing in Jiro Everro to run that defense, which 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.200 stems from the same principles on the defense he ran. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.400 So let's go year by year back to the San 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:42.640 Francisco days, starting no, going back to twenty eleven. We 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.000 start in twenty twenty two, though, he was a consultant 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.040 for the Philadelphia Eagles, and you saw the Eagles get 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.839 after it with really, in all honesty, a lot of 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.480 the same principles from a Fangio style defense. They were 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.040 third in total defense. They had fifteen more sacks than 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.720 the second place sacking team at seventy compared to Kansas 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.719 City is fifty five. Uber our Championship round takeaways was 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.640 how to pressure upfront, and that's how you kind of 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.039 can control games and remove my preconceived moniker that your 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.480 defense is as good as the offense is playing. Not 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.360 when you can get pressure with four Philadelphia seventy sacks 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.240 Kansas City fifty five. They'll meet in the Super Bowl. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.440 The Eagles had the third lowest passer rating against eighty 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.320 one point six. They were seventh ranked in scoring defense 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.520 at twenty point one points per game. They had the 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.679 twelfth ranked red zone defense and the fourteenth ranked third 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.960 down defense. Let's go ahead and do that for all 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.520 the teams that he's coached going back to twenty eleven. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.360 So the Broncos in twenty twenty one is the head 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.080 coach eighth and total defense third and scoring twenty first 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.080 and takeaways six and passer rating third and red zone 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.920 twenty eighth and third down. The next season they were 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.760 twenty first in total twenty fifth and scoring twenty ninth 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.480 and takeaways and despite being sixteenth and passer rating fifteenth 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.600 and third down, they were still number one in the 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.600 red zone. In twenty nineteen, it was better. So they 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.240 had like a down year in twenty twenty. I'm not 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.559 really sure what you would call that. There was opt 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.880 outs that year, the COVID year, people missing from games, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.400 you know, just a lot of stuff going on that 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 was different in twenty twenty. But twenty nineteen is first 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.640 year twelfth, and defense tenth and scoring twenty fifth and 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.040 takeaways never really got to takeaways in Denver twenty first, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.040 twenty nine and twenty fifth, sixteenth and passer rating, but 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.600 again first in red zone thirteenth and third down defense. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.920 So always top three in the red zone in red 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.920 zone scoring like that is if you can do that 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.640 in today's NFL. And again with this Dolphins defense Dolphins offense, rather, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.480 you're gonna win a lot of games, you're gonna compete 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.840 for the division, You're going to compete in January and beyond. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.400 Like that's what you need as exactly what you need. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.720 Go back to Chicago when he was the DC his 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.520 last year, there was an amazing one third in total defense, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.360 first in scoring first, and takeaways first, and opposer passer 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.920 rating opposing passer rating sixth in red zone and fourth 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.800 and third down defense. Like they were great across the board. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.800 And the years prior to that wasn't any worse. I 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.440 mean they were tenth, fifteenth and fourteenth, and defense ninth, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.400 twenty fourth and twentieth and scoring defense. So that's you know, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.720 I guess they had the scoring fell off a little 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.280 bit there, but again, personnel, there's some lean years in 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.240 there they were first, thirteenth, thirty, second, and sixteenth. And 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.600 takeaways in Chicago, the passer rating was only really good 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.360 one of the four years, the first, eighteenth, twenty third, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.400 and twenty sixth. But again red zone six twelve, eleventh, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.520 twenty first, like they were always a good red zone 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.079 defense besides that first year, and then third downs where 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.359 the fluctuation comes to the most for his defense is fourth, twentieth, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.600 twenty second, and twenty ninth. So it gets better as 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.800 he goes each stop along the way in the key 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.800 categories like total and scoring in third down red zones, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.600 pretty much always good, and then the takeaways and passer rating, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.880 those things kind of work together, right, usually pretty good, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.840 but not so great those couple of years there in Chicago. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.400 You go back to San Francisco. He always had a 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.320 good defense there the four years there, fourth, fifth, third, 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.800 and fourth in total defense, tenth, third, second, and second 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.360 and scoring defense. Takeaways they were fourth, sixth, fourteenth, and first. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.800 It's a defense that generates takeaways. Man, we'll talk about 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.160 that more in a second. They get eyes in the 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.720 football and they attack that way. They were fourth, fourth, sixth, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.920 and fifth in posing passer rating, but the red zone 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.719 wasn't as good like weird twenty eighth, thirteenth, twenty eighth, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.920 and fourth, and then third down defense was twenty six, fifth, third, 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:23.120 and eleventh. Excuse me, so again those Bears and Broncos ratings, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.400 you know they were not up to par. Those were 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.000 some lean years in terms of their personnel. Just you know, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.439 for your information. Not trying to make an excuse or 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.720 tell you like he's a great coach regardless, but let's 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.640 just say he's not going to have that problem here 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.199 short of another instance of losing seven to eight key 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.440 players and stars for your defense the whole year like 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.120 we had last year. But if that doesn't happen, those 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.440 numbers will not happen. Let's next look at how he does, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.720 Like what are the ingredients? What goes into the stew 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.280 I want to go ahead and look at his most 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.839 recent stop in Denver between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.880 How did the Broncos attack opposing offenses. We'll do that 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.200 and break down some of the film I watched on 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.160 his games. That's next Yime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:14.840 brought to you by Auto Nation, The VIC Fangio episode 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:19.280 of the Drivetime podcast New Dolphins Defensive Coordinator. We've broken 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.040 down the statistical ranks of where he's been over the 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.440 last decade plus told you about his resume. Let's go 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.760 ahead and jump into the film and what NFL Jesus 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:34.119 we call it gisis where they rank Vic Fangio style defenses. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.920 And I just went back and cumulatively took the last 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.360 three years with the Broncos because it's it really tracks similarly. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.040 I mean, the Bears was the same, the Niers was 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.400 the same. He's not gonna overhaul what he does. Obviously 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.160 he's smart enough to adapt and change things year to year, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.000 but it's it's principally the same idea as you know, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.160 year after year. So let's go ahead and talk about 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.720 what he did in Denver. They ran out of their 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.520 base package, which was a three four twenty one percent 0:11:58.520 --> 0:11:59.800 of the time. And I'm gonna go ahead and say 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.360 it in everyone listens to this podcast knows this, but 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.800 apparently people that don't don't know this. Three four and 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.920 four three is a fraction of your defense? Can we 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.400 all agree to agree upon that it's less than a 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.640 fifth of your defense? Typically here it's twenty one percent. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.400 A little more nickel defense is your base like getting 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.280 caught up in whether a coach runs three four or 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.840 four three is not relevant. I mean it is to 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.559 understand the defense they play and what they want to 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.360 play on base downs. But man like it is a 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.080 fraction of what you run. This is not nineteen ninety four. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.520 I don't know why it's so prevalent. I mean, I 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.680 know I've seen, you know, beat writers and people that 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.560 cover the game professionally talk about it like it is 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.559 and so maybe that's where the fans get it from. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.880 But you're four three and three fours. That's not how 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.880 the NFL works anymore. It hasn't for like twenty years, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.800 but we still talk about it that way. Anyway, the 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.560 base heat ran in Denver was three or four, which 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.160 is twenty one percent of the time. And he also 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.240 ran the four three four point six percent of the time. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.880 So it's some hybrid variables there in terms of their fronts, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.679 and we see it with Philly two. It means a 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.440 consultant there some five down front. So like there's there's 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.360 some variety and versatility he builds into a system, which 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.320 you have to love because he'll morphit around the players 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.640 that he has. But as we always say, you know, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.560 the nickel defense is your base. So those are your 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.760 fractions nickel over the three years, sixty two point one 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.040 percent of the time. But here's a big figure that's 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.839 not common in the NFL today, dime packaging ten point 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.640 nine percent. So eleven percent of the time they have 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.240 a sixth defensive back on the field or more. And 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.600 they ran twelve players from quarter which is seven defensive backs. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.680 Situational based sub package. You know, we don't believe in 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.360 putting on more linebackers, a more defensive linemen to rush 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.920 to quarterback. We believe in getting pressure with our system upfront, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.199 with our ability to create one on ones, and then 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.160 we disguise and confuse quarterbacks on the back end and 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.760 give them more cover guys to handle thirtain lungs so 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.880 that guys can't get open. Like the game against the 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.840 Chiefs or the Chiefs and Bengals game on Sunday, the 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.520 Bengals had that third and sixteen and Hayden Hurst sprung 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.880 a little you know, flag route wide open. Why is 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.360 he not covered because you weren't aligned properly. You didn't 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:01.920 have the right personnel in the field, get your right 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.360 personnel out there, and get a stop on third and sixteen. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.520 So that's kind of the idea that we'll talk more 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.280 about the structure of it. The box counts seven man 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.319 boxes was just eighteen point eight percent. That's your average 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.920 you know, four three three four defense type of Look, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.000 you're four defensive backs or even your five defensive backs 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.480 with the rat in the whole eighteen point eight percent 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.000 of the time a normal box light boxes are ran 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.160 seventy three point seven percent of the time. Sixteen hundred 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.280 and twenty six plays out of the three thou eighty 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.200 five came with a six man box. What does that 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.480 tell you? Two high safeties they don't bring that safety 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.680 down and it's usually from nickel personnel. So we're gonna 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.120 go four two five, and we're gonna play all five 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.360 defensive backs out of the box and try to win 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.440 our gap assignments accordingly. Now that of course can shift 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.640 on early down personnel. That's why you have it only 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.920 seventy three percent of the time. You can shift that 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.760 base upon the offensive ability to match their personnel. So 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.760 it's not like some definitive number. But it tells you. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.440 This defense is based upon the ability to play two 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.760 high safeties and forced defenses to be patient to run 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.320 the football and take underneath stuff and limit big plays. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.080 That gives well with the defensive personnel we have here 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.480 and then stacked boxes seven point five percent of the time. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.000 But again, the box count idea here tells you they 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.080 prefer to play down a man in the run count 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.640 in the gap assignments to get more on the back 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.920 end against coverage. And I like that when you're dealing 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.720 with Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, the best quarterbacks 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.720 in the league. I like the idea of defending the 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.800 pass and eight or nine yards average pertempt compared to 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.280 three or four yards on the ground. The coverage structure 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.320 here you go, single high safety. You're gonna think this 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.000 is funny because it's going to contradict everything I just 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.800 told you. But I'll tell you why that's the case. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.000 Single high safety pre snap forty three point three percent, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.040 two high safety pre snap thirty seven point five percent. Travis, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.560 that number is lower. You just lied to us. Hang 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.440 on cover zero seventeen point four percent of the time. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.080 So there is there's so much variety in this defense. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.720 We'll talk to Sean here in a minute about that, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.800 but it definitely is capable of confusing quarterbacks based upon 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.600 the ability to show different pictures different times and change 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.760 what you do pre snap and post snap and then 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.440 other coverages one point eight percent of the time. Again, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.320 this jives with the ability to confuse quarterbacks and force 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.520 them to think and make decisions on the fly after 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.320 the snap. This is pre snap structure, so it changes. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.200 You're not camping out in one thing. You don't rotate 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.400 the same way every single time. It's constantly evolving. So 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.120 the quarterback can't say, well, last time that safety started 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.400 on the far hash and then buzzed the crossing route 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.640 from the backside take away the over route like he 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.040 wanted to deal with mesh. Well, next time you've bluffed 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.360 the mesh, you go back to the middle of the 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.560 field and you pull down the opposite safety, like you 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.400 have different things you can do. Interchangeable safety plays a 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.760 key in this defense. That's why those coverage numbers pre 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.480 snap and the post snap rotation is so not aligned, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.480 if that makes sense. Unaligned, I don't know. They play 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.680 man coverage twenty point three percent of the time. They 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.840 play zone coverage seventy eight points even percent of the time, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.840 But that can be difficult to plot because a lot 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.639 of coverages are hybrid based, especially in this defense. You know, man, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.359 front side, zone, backside, vice versa. A lot of times 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.920 man coverage converted to zone in this defense based upon 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.199 you know, the way they stack or bunch or motion. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.480 It's not as easy as just listing out numbers. That's 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.560 why we're going to get to my guest here in 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.240 a moment. He's going to break it down for us further. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.399 But it's not always, and almost never is what you 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.120 see is what you get. It's constantly changing and evolving. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.320 As far as their rush packages rush plans, they go 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.080 three man rush in Denver they did eleven percent of 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.760 the time, the four man rush was fifty seven point 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.600 six percent of the time, and your five man rushes, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.879 you know, blitzing was eighteen percent of the time. They 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.040 had seventy eight snaps of seven rushers twenty three snaps 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.080 of seven rushers, so about twenty percent blitzer rates there. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.400 For the Broncos under Vic Fangio, they rarely go Joe break. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.080 They just don't bring the all out blitzing rushing attack. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.879 It's if they do come, it's typically just five guys. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.120 Then there's one hundred and sixty four snaps of less 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.240 than three rushers. Think end of game, end of half, third, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.600 and a mile situations, all kinds of scenarios that play 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.600 into that, But the primary number here is the fifty 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.840 seven point six four man rush. In total, it was 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.560 four or fewer rushers seventy six point nine percent of 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.120 the time during the three years in Denver. So expect 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.840 far fewer blitzing, better coverage, better disguise, better shells in 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:29.200 the back end, and trusting Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.320 and Emmanuel Ogba and Christian Wilkins and Zach Steeler and 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.440 Melvin Ingra if he comes back, Andrew van Ginkol, if 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.600 he comes back, four guys go get the quarterback. We'll 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.000 play good coverage in the back end and give you 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.439 hopefully an extra If this defense can get two tenths 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.680 of a second longer time to throw, that sack production, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.440 the turnover production, the third down defense, all of that, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.800 all of it will ratchety way way up. And really, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.199 if you look at defenses that typically can generate the 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.640 most takeaways or be stout in the red zone. It's 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.920 because they change the picture on the quarterback. They confuse 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.200 you and give you multiple looks. You can never give 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.000 a quarterback the same look over and over again. A 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.520 quarterback of the ILK of Aaron Rodgers or Patrick Mahomes, 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.600 whatever the case may be. You have to consistently change 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.800 what they look at. And that's usually how mistakes are generated, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.760 right by confusing the quarterback and forcing poor decisions to 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.760 put the ball where you want them to put the ball. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.119 And you do that by changing it up. I've seen 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.520 five games of his now. I went back and watched 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.960 against one against Mahomes, one against twa and twenty twenty 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.080 one against Aaron Rodgers when he was with the Bears, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.680 and a couple other games with the Broncos, and I 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.280 just wanted to see how he went about that. And 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.760 it was like the takeaway is that there was no takeaway. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.679 It was always different. It was always, you know, show 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.080 mugged up pressure in the a gap and pull a 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.040 guy out, Show a seven man pressure package and pull 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.480 two defensive tackles out and rush the ads, show nobody 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:57.520 and delay green dog puts them user athletic linebackers to key. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.800 If a running back is staying in protection, go get him. 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.520