Melvin White + Bene Benwikere; plus some secondary notes

[Paa Langfart]

When you hold a team like the Lions to only 7 points, you had a damn good day on defense at every level. I'm done doubting Gettleman and Rivera when it comes to defensive personnel. Rivera and crew will find a way to make it elite.

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[philw5289]

Benwikere was a great draft pick.

 

so happy we traded up for him, I did not expect him to be this good so early

[smash_n_dash]

Encouraging thing was that even when the pass rush failed to get pressure on Stafford at various times, the secondary stepped up and shut down the receivers, what makes our defense elite, no weak links 

 

 

Found this on ESPN:

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/detroit-lions/post/_/id/10893/taking-away-tate-hurt-detroits-offense

 

The Panthers didn't exactly shift their coverage to eliminate Tate, but they started to pick up on things they saw in their film study during the week. Based on where Tate was lined up in Detroit's offense, the Panthers predicted the route he would run or the area of the field he would be aiming to end up in.

 

 

"When you can take away the other reads and guys who can hurt you on offense, it does kind of make you one-dimensional," DeCoud said. "And then they are going to try and feed their big receiver, their big target and now we can key in on that and be ready."

 

 

Someone on this defense worked real hard in the film room this week.  I mean the entire secondary was on the exact same page.  Whether it was one of them being really bright in film study and pointing out trends to the teammates or it was a coach that showed them, they picked it up.

 

I'm thrilled that we're already showing a strength on this part of the defense this early in the season.

 

Or maybe we played a bad team? Maybe its too early to tell.

[Swedish Butt-Whistle]

 

 

Or maybe we played a bad team? Maybe its too early to tell.

The disparity among professional teams in the NFL is slim. Not really any "bad" players, and to even hint Stafford to Johnson,Tate is anywhere below "very good" is just wrong, man! Secondary certainly won this matchup.

[Eazy-E]

Decoud and Harper were bright spots. I haven't said that about our safeties In a while. I cannot wait to play the Falcons and Saints.

[davos]

And yeah, Cason really was everywhere today.  The football IQ on defense seems through the roof.  

[pantherclaw]

Love our defense. It's even better than last year.

As expected it should.

[Toundra]

It is time to stop speaking about our outstanding front 7 but our outstanding defense as a whole.

[RJK]

melvin white is my hero

[jarhead]

Kudos to our defense especially the coaching!

[Toundra]

I was unhappy with the safeties but today i like both Harper half lung and Decould. *jumping in the band wagon*

 

White, Cason and Bene as the first 3 best Corners of the team are another "fait accompli".

A discilpined Norman is as good as the 3 others.

 

[enikville]

Did Godfrey even play? I don't recall seeing him at all.

[Vagrant]

They had a great gameplan. Put your biggest and most physical corners on Megatron and give them plenty of safety help. Make Stafford beat you with Golden Tate. Because the middle of our field belongs to Luke and anything thrown in his zone is going to be a bad idea. We were able to partially negate their triple headed monster at TE because they didn't want to throw over the middle into Luke which allowed the safeties to play far back off the LOS. We funneled the play away from the middle of the field. This left them with the option of forcing the ball into double coverage on Megatron, going to Golden Tate, or checking down and letting our linebackers run free. I think just as impressive what we did against Megatron was the job that we did against Reggie Bush. You want to talk about a dude that got totally shut down. Joique Bell ended up getting the targets on pass plays and mostly got meaningless yards and no big plays. That was an excellent gameplan.

 

We would have liked to have gotten more pressure on the QB in the first half before it became obvious they were going to be passing on every down. They moved the ball well in the first half but we were able to get out unscathed due to creating a turnover and their kicker missing two field goals. They had our defense on the field for a long time in the first half and could have easily scored some big time points but our defense played the short field very well and got some breaks.

 

The main thing is that you can't let Megatron beat you alone. If you're going to lose to the Lions, you better lose to Golden Tate, Reggie Bush, and those TEs or your gameplan was bad. Stafford WILL try to force it to him and if you have the proper coverage on him you can limit his impact on the game. Especially when you're not having to roll your coverage because somebody else is lighting you up too. They should have gone to Ebron more because he was the only consistent threat that scared me out there. His athleticism was even tough for TD and Luke. But holding Megatron to less than 50% of catches vs. targets is a good formula for success.

[TbTeRRoR]

Who the heck is Megatron? I only saw Melvatron!