Utah_Saint

I'm interested in seeing it all. But if I had to choose one unit, it would be the defensive line.

The defensive line has been just flat out bad for a long while now. Last year the Saints got credit for he 12th rated rushing defense but that’s just a misleading stat. The real reason they ranked as high as they did was because they had the fewest rushes against. The truth of the matter is they gave up 5.0 yards per attempt. That’s absolutely horrible. That tied them with two other teams for the second worst rush/attempt average in the league. Only the Raiders were worse, giving up 5.1 yards per rush. I don’t expect the Saints to improve to a top 5 defense but as far as run stopping goes, but I’d like them to improve to at least average. That could give the offense some breathing room when they’re not clicking like what happened in St. Louis last year, when they gave up 183 yards on the ground. And despite all the blitzing Gregg Williams did, the Saints also got the fewest quarterback pressures in the league last year. People like to point out the falcons terrible pass rush last year but they got the same number of sacks as the Saints with 60% more quarterback pressures. You can’t short your pass coverage and not get some pressure on the quarterback. That’s just a recipe for disaster.

With the addition of Bunkley and Hicks and all the hype about Wilson playing up on the line and the improvement of Cam, I'm hoping that unit can become something better than the turn-styles in fleur di lis' they've been for a years now. I think that's gonna be Spagnuolo's biggest challenge.