Mike Nolan history

[fivetwos]

yeh Saints and Packers were actually among the mid to bottom in yards allowed when they won their respective Super Bowls,...but they were also
at the very top of NFL ranks,.. when it came to creating opportunistic turnovers.

Do we have the player personnel ball hawks that can constantly get the turnovers ...??

Pressure forces QBs into mistakes.

Dudes dropping the football is pure happenstance.

Whoever falls on it is even more unpredictable.

Things like that are the difference. Why I find overanalyzing a waste of time.

 

[quickccc]

Philly Eagles per DC Jim Swartz play that high risk gambling defense too. they want to bring constant pressure with their front four,..then their front seven
while absolute daring to leave their CBs on an island to face the Coopers and Gallups of the world.

From what i'm hearing we are gonna be playing that similar type Cover 1 and Cover 3,.. high risk,.. bump press, ..alone on an island daring coverages as Swartz's Philly Eagles do. Hope it works, you really have to have supreme confidence in your coverage CBs to have such a risk like that,

 

[DuncanIso]

No. not that excited about Nolan. He's probably just average.

But at least he's a coordinator truly on board with the head coach, and that's been a problem around here since Parcells left.

hes big buddies with Big Mike.

Nolan was HC at Niners and helped Mike get the OC job.

next season Mike gets the HC gig at Packers.

how lucky can a guy get? Who knew his buddy would be the Dallas HC someday?

 

[DuncanIso]

Nolan had to deal with poor defensive personnel his last year in Atlanta. I think it's probably fair play to take that into serious consideration.

he helped build that defense in ATL.

3 years of work.

That was all his fault.

 

[DuncanIso]

no but MM hired him so ill trust him..for now

mike and Nolan go way back.

it’s good to have friends.

don’t ya think?

 

[DuncanIso]

Are we doing this again? Those numbers don't come close to telling the whole story about Nolan's career as a defensive coordinator.

check out his stats on pro football ref.

terrible.

 

[Redline360]

Nolan was my least favorite signing. Nothing about him excites me honestly.

Hopefully he proves us wrong

 

[glimmerman]

With the players we have on the front. He may not have to blitz as much. Sounds like he likes to blitz. Let’s hope our corners can hold up and look for the ball. We will see some teams hit some big plays on us. But hopefully not worrying as much during 3rd and longs. Seems like the last years I always worried when our Defense faced a 3rd and 15 or 20. We never got pressure and the picked it up. Not a big long TD but they had enough time to let the wr get open 15 or 20 yards down field. They never looked back for the ball and gave to big of cushions..

 

[Denim Chicken]

Out of curiosity, where does this take come from?

Me

 

[SlammedZero]

When he was in ATL, they really didn't hit on a single defensive draft pick outside Desmond Trufant. They hadn't drafted a probowler on D since 2009.

Yup, about what I was going to say as well. My BFF is a Falcons fan and I know he was always mad at the devoid of defensive talent on the team in those years especially.

 

[TwoDeep3]

The cobbler is only as good as the tools and materials he has to work with.

Coaches put players in a position to win their battles. If the player does not understand, works off emotion and does not do what he was taught, or just doesn't have the snot to get the job done, the coach is blamed. That is not to say a coach cannot be lame, obtuse with the game plan, or a puppet of the head coach or management.

So many judge a player or coach by past performance. That has a say in this argument. But that is not the only issue which should be considered.

And to be sure, past results do not indicate future results in football to a degree. The ball is pointy on each end and sometimes does the unexpected. But no two results are ever the same.

 

[quickccc]

With the players we have on the front. He may not have to blitz as much. Sounds like he likes to blitz. Let’s hope our corners can hold up and look for the ball. We will see some teams hit some big plays on us.

But hopefully not worrying as much during 3rd and longs. Seems like the last years I always worried when our Defense faced a 3rd and 15 or 20. We never got pressure and the picked it up. Not a big long TD but they had enough time to let the wr get open 15 or 20 yards down field. They never looked back for the ball and gave to big of cushions..

Giiiitty Up ! .. that's gonna play a big part in the pass defense.
Especially with opposing teams likely to go to quick 3 step drops, stop and go, double move deep routes and RB screens.. if they fear our pass rush that much ,,

 

[glimmerman]

Giiiitty Up ! .. that's gonna play a big part in the pass defense.
Especially with opposing teams likely to go to quick 3 step drops, stop and go, double move deep routes and RB screens.. if they fear our pass rush that much ,,

Please let us cover the screens. They always scare me. Taking a dang wr and rb screens away and let the corners take a shot at the quick passes.

 

[CyberB0b]

He's a bum. If his last name wasn't Nolan, he wouldn't have a job.

 

[Bullflop]

he helped build that defense in ATL.

3 years of work.

That was all his fault.

Yeah, right . . . poor play by poor players had nothing to do with it.

 

[fivetwos]

I just really wish Atlanta had given up less yards in those years.

I'd feel SO much better about our chances this year if they did.

 

[DuncanIso]

He's a bum. If his last name wasn't Nolan, he wouldn't have a job.

we do have Edwards and Tomsula.

two elite coaches.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

his boss has something to say about that,,they have plan with this current roster..ill be happy to see more blitzes when needed nut i doubt he will be blitz happy

His new Boss as in McCarthy? If so, he ran a blitz pressure scheme in Green Bay as well. McCarthy picked this guy for a reason. They run similar schemes.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

A smart DC blitzes young QBs and below average QBs, but he plays solid schemes with disguise and less blitzing vs the great, established QBs.

I don't know what we have but I do know he runs a pressure scheme.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Me

It's not accurate.