Would You Be Happy With An Improved Marinelli Defense?

817Gill said:

Quinn and Marinelli run similar-ish defensive-styles, even more-so with Kris Richard. I’ve seen many concerns about the similarities in style and return to similar results. I’m not 100% sure about how I feel about the hire, but I do know that if he can just be a slightly-improved version of the Marinelli-era, then we can be enough defensively to support the big-time offense.

If I recall correctly the biggest gripe in the Marinelli and eventual Richard era was the simplicity and lack of difficulty for opposing QB’s. Positively, the unit was an overall solid bend-but-don’t-break unit who routinely finished well in points allowed. They also were rarely poor run defenses. All in all the defenses in this era were slightly below average to solid.

If Quinn can come in and add a bit more variation, a little less stubbornness with old techniques, and some more blitzing/turnover creation, then we have a defense that is good enough to not hold the team back. With this offense, that’s all we really need.

There are still teams in the league who run a variation of the scheme, and by all accounts Quinn is a good teacher and motivator.

Would that be good enough for y’all?

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Tangle_Foot said:

At this point I'm more concerned about the jimmies and Joe's rather than the X's and O's, but to answer the question I would be happy with improvement regardless of scheme.

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AmariChill said:

If be happy if we could somehow convince the Rams defensive coordinator here when his contract expires.

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817Gill said:

Quinn and Marinelli run similar-ish defensive-styles, even more-so with Kris Richard. I’ve seen many concerns about the similarities in style and return to similar results. I’m not 100% sure about how I feel about the hire, but I do know that if he can just be a slightly-improved version of the Marinelli-era, then we can be enough defensively to support the big-time offense.

If I recall correctly the biggest gripe in the Marinelli and eventual Richard era was the simplicity and lack of difficulty for opposing QB’s. Positively, the unit was an overall solid bend-but-don’t-break unit who routinely finished well in points allowed. They also were rarely poor run defenses. All in all the defenses in this era were slightly below average to solid.

If Quinn can come in and add a bit more variation, a little less stubbornness with old techniques, and some more blitzing/turnover creation, then we have a defense that is good enough to not hold the team back. With this offense, that’s all we really need.

There are still teams in the league who run a variation of the scheme, and by all accounts Quinn is a good teacher and motivator.

Would that be good enough for y’all?

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817Gill said:

If I recall correctly the biggest gripe in the Marinelli and eventual Richard era was the simplicity and lack of difficulty for opposing QB’s. Positively, the unit was an overall solid bend-but-don’t-break unit who routinely finished well in points allowed. They also were rarely poor run defenses. All in all the defenses in this era were slightly below average to solid.
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