Building A Champion; Part 3 of 3 - Defense

[dcstands4]

Today in the final edition of building a champion. We take a look at the strengths, weakness and things we do well but need to improve upon before they become weaknesses from the defensive side of the ball.
To read part 1 of Building A Champion; Offense click here. For part 2; Special teams click here.

Bright spots​

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Turnovers. This defense was top 3 in take a ways during the 2013 season. This is because of the mindset Rod Marinelli instilled in us. With a healthy defense and another year with Rod this defense should get even better with turnovers. Think the Chicago Bears.

The bad part about our turnover numbers. It's true that we had a lot of them however in December we only accounted for 3 take-a-ways. In the 12 games before that last month of the season the defense had 25.

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[yentl911]

D-Line, D-Line and more D-Line....the Giants were winning SB's with a superior D-Line and now they are an average to below average team now that their d-line is suspect at best......oh yeah, and we need a training staff that knows how to keep a hamstring or two healthy

 

[dcstands4]

D-Line, D-Line and more D-Line....the Giants were winning SB's with a superior D-Line and now they are an average to below average team now that their d-line is suspect at best......oh yeah, and we need a training staff that knows how to keep a hamstring or two healthy

pretty much