Take a look at episode 39 of Duval Rundown, hosted by Gus Logue.
Gus was joined by 1010XL’s Mia O’Brien for a reside breakdown of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ Week 14 matchup in opposition to the Tennessee Titans. Particularly: how has first-year defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson turned the Titans right into a top-five move protection?
“This jogs my memory of the ‘Legion of Growth’ again in 2013-ish, 2014. After Pete Carroll designed a tremendous protection that had future Corridor of Famers simply riddled throughout the roster, like Bobby Wagner and Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas, you noticed Gus Bradley get employed in Jacksonville. Robert Salah, Dan Quinn, a bunch of assistants from that Seattle defensive teaching employees obtained head teaching alternatives as a result of Pete Carroll’s Cowl 3 scheme was simply working that properly.
“That’s what you’re seeing proper now. Mike MacDonald’s scheme final yr in Baltimore, actually the previous two years in Baltimore, was working so properly that the Ravens had a mind dump, the place that they had a number of assistants depart the constructing to take alternatives elsewhere.
“What’s completely different on this stance is that Mike Macdonald’s scheme is a little more versatile and a bit extra adaptive. Whereas the Cowl 3, the fantastic thing about it’s, you line up and do what you do. It’s simplified for the protection they usually’re capable of play very quick. However ultimately, offenses discovered what labored and what didn’t work in opposition to that scheme. But it surely’s rather a lot simpler mentioned than completed, I feel, in opposition to Mike Macdonald’s scheme.
“Yeah, completely. I feel with Gus’ scheme, it in the end grew to become, ‘Hey, that is who we’re.’ It’s static pre- and post-snap … that’s very 2013. I do know we’ve beforehand talked on the pod about Doug Pederson and his offensive scheme type of resting its hat on, you recognize what? This labored in 2017, it’ll work in 2024. And I feel we will make the identical argument on the defensive aspect of the ball, that what beforehand labored on protection within the Nationwide Soccer League in 2013 and 2017, could not work right here in 2024.”
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