Meeks says defense needs to regain its swagger....

[Dpantherman]

Verb 1. swagger - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"

prance, strut, tittup, sashay, cock, ruffle

walk - use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet"

2. swagger - discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

browbeat, bully

blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, palaver - influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

3. swagger - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

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[beastson]

You like fish sticks, don't you?

Yes, if he roll with Kanye West crew

[weyco2000]

When the word swagger is used in sports, it means to exude confidence and this is what he's talking about. Swagger is to know you gonna kick ass and you know it and by your behavior, everyone else knows it. Swagger must be earned by intimidation and confidence.

[Dpantherman]

When the word swagger is used in sports, it means to exude confidence and this is what he's talking about. Swagger is to know you gonna kick ass and you know it and by your behavior, everyone else knows it. Swagger must be earned by intimidation and confidence.

i know, and i didn't get that from any of the definitions you gave.

[Peppers90 NC]

Meeks: “I thought early in the training camp we were having a lot of success getting turnovers, but it has to keep going each week.

Hmmm I wonder why they were gettin turnovers in TC, oh they were playing against the likes of Jake or McCown. I remember reading how the defense would get interceptions and felt concern towards our offense.

[Sam Mills Fan]

How would Meeks know what this defense looks like when it has swagger? It hasn't had it on a single drive since he's been here.

[Peppers90 NC]

Verb 1. swagger - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"

prance, strut, tittup, sashay, cock, ruffle

walk - use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet"

2. swagger - discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

browbeat, bully

blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, palaver - influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

3. swagger - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

#1 or #3 is what most people refer to when using the term swagger

[weyco2000]

No more English lessoms! Swagger means to kick ass and smile while you're doing it!! Its nothing to do with mojo, why can't you understand that dpantherman09? What ya want next, the word origin?

[CatMan72]

I didn't know you had to have swagger to make a tackle?

I was taught to tackle in pop warner, don't remember the swagger part of that?

[CatMan72]

It deeply concerns me that so far Meeks appears to be more concerned with gimmicks like "swarm to the ball" and "swagger" and less concerned with fundamentals like tackling and coverage/gap assignments.

Swagger comes from playing well and playing well on defense in part requires the ability to execute a tackle, cover your man or stick to your gap, so start doing all these little things and this defense will get it's swagger back.

Here's another radical idea: let's actually blitz every once in a while! Nothing increases a defense's swagger quotient like sacking the QB. We've got Thomas "Greased-lightning" Davis playing OLB, let's sick him on the QB a couple times a game....

[IRONMAN]

I stopped reading after this:

Q. When teams come out like Atlanta did and go with three-step drops to slow down your pass rush, how do you counteract that?

Meeks: “You try to do a better job with the coverage and get tighter coverage.

So you are telling me every team we play that goes to a 3 step drop since you don't blitz that the secondary has to keep tighter coverage than usual. Well isn't that what they are always trying to do? I don't think Gamble looks back up field while covering someone and says "Well Peppers looks like hes getting some pressure I don't have to cover as well" but on this play theres no pressure I had better run faster!!

[panthers55]

Swagger comes with success. You don't have it before you actually do something on the field. It develops when you actually cause turnovers and apply pressure. But Meeks knows you have to play aggressively and force the action rather than react and wait for example until the receiver has the ball and then make the tackle. We all too often just shadow the receiver too far away to make a play on the ball. What he wants is pressure on the receiver right away and continuously making it tough to find an open receiver. That way the pressure gets there. Right now we are not covering the TE and receivers out of the backfield allowing opponents to find an easy target and develop a rhythm.

Swagger is fine, but what I need to see is aggressive execution of a gameplan which is well conceived and well executed. After all, we need to return to the defense of 2005 when we weren't great limiting yards but we were excellent limiting points which in the end is all that matters. So far we are poor at limiting drives and getting off the field.

[Jangler]

[Mr. Scot]

If Meeks tells guys in the locker room to "walk with a proud and lofty gait" he should be fired on the spot

Seriously though, even two games in, this is still a new system and there's more adjustment to it than most expected.

The ideal situation for me would be to see the defense improve as they have more time in the scheme (and as players get healthy) and to look better by season's end than they do now. This would be a pleasant change from the previous habit of looking good early and fading down the stretch.