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Bleacher Report Power Ranks Defenses

jfra78

By jfra78,
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Makes sense as far as preseason rankings go considering the facts.

New coaches, new defensive scheme/identity, a few good vets, some JAGs and some rookies.

We don't even know how much time they will all have on the same field together before the regular season starts.

We can't pretend we had a decent 2019 season and just needed to make a few adjustments and add a couple players. 

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It is no surprise that we are ranked near the bottom in our 2020 rebuilding year. The good news is that we have the potential to improve and move up quite a bit in 2021, once the young players get experience and we have another good draft.

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3 hours ago, onmyown said:

lol what the hell how do you rank a defense before anyone has even taken a training camp snap yet let alone a team that  for the first time in NFL history used all picks on defense? This is worse than draft grades

man I can’t imagine the mindless babble that will be created if football is cancelled altogether this year

 

’we’ll take into account things we can’t take into account’

It’s bleacherreport. If it were a printed publication, you’d find it at the checkout in a grocery store. 

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The only thing keeping people from ranking us dead last is that the draft is fresh on the mind and we drafted heavier on defense than any team ever has, quite literally. We were a terrible defense last year and we lost the best player from every level of that already terrible defense. We added a lot of talent and hopefully that'll translate to a good defense in the future, but this is almost certainly gonna be a dreadful defense this year.

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8 hours ago, hepcat said:

Pretty fair ranking. But unlike last year, which fielded a defense full of aging veterans and a complacent coaching staff, this defense is full of young athletic players and a hungry coaching staff eager to prove themselves at the pro level.

I, for one, think we have a lot of potential. It’s not going to be a great season, but it should be a growing season. Which is better than watching a declining team like we did in 2018 and 2019

A friend of mine(former college football RB) once made a statement about potential, "Potential just means you haven't done sh!t yet."

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4 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

A friend of mine(former college football RB) once made a statement about potential, "Potential just means you haven't done sh!t yet."

It’s true, but I’d rather have a young team with “potential” over an old team 

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Pretty fair ranking. This defense needs to show up if they want any respect. 

Personally i think we added much more to the secondary than Troy Pride. 4/7 picks.

Excited about Chinn and Robinson.

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