Rugby Saint II

Teams who have talent and do the basics well should be competitive. Add in good position coaches and good coordinators who know how to get the most out of a player through scheme and it's a good recipe for success.

DA will blitz. He won't be blitz happy but he will bring the pressure.

The difference this year will be Lewis returning to form and the development of last years rookie corners for quality coverage across from Breaux. The line backers will now be lead by Laurinitis that I have extremely high hopes for. Anthony is going to be turned loose at his new position. When Ellerbe is healthy he's a force when he's not we now have Robertson to step in without missing a beat.

The free safeties look good with the addition of our new rookie so if Byrd goes down we should be fine and able to run a single high safety look effectively. If Byrd plays well then we can run a three safety set and get back to doing that again.

I believe Jordan, Fairley, Rankins, Davison, Onyemata, Richardson, Edibali and Tull can actually pressure the QB taking the pressure off the secondary so they can become opportunistic again. Hit the pocket and collapse it. That is the defensive lines job. No more wait and see.

This new defensive philosophy has me excited about the future for our defense. No more wait and see then react. Balls to the wall baby!

Seer1

Hand the man a ceegar! That's it exactly. While the scheme's important and talent's good to have, it don't mean squat if the players aren't well coached. It's pretty hard to argue that our defensive players have been even mediocrely coached the past few years.

Mediocrely