What does our D actually do in practice?

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If anyone has gone to mini-camps, TC, and regular season practices, what exactly does the defense do in drills? They are abysmal in creating turnovers, seeming to be nowhere near tipped balls, and our secondary is awful at playing the ball, or even looking in it's direction. Not to mention the horrible, pin-ball tackling from the D as a whole.

Do they ever practice tip-ball drills?

Stripping?

I know Wade doesn't encourage the players to tackle in offseason sessions.

So anyone who's gone to watch the D practice, can you tell me all exactly that they do?
 
They need to master the basics of tackling before anything else.
 
Over the last two seasons, I've been to 6 preseason practices. Here's what happens...

Special teams trickles onto the field. FG kicker kicks the ball around a little. Players walk onto the field. They talk to each other and laugh. Many of them for what ever reason, begin to kick around a soccer ball. This seems to be a favorite of the DBs. Especially Terrence Newman. The BIG STARS like Romo and Witten jog on to the field late so they can make their GRAND entrance. Then they sit down and stretch and jog through a couple of drills. They then run about 20 - 30 plays - no tackling of course. The coach blows a horn that signifies that the practice is over. The players leave in their sports cars to go spend their money.

I seriously had a friend go to a San Antonio practice with me. He's not a football fan but he went just to hang out with me. After the practice was over he looked at me and said, "that's it, are you serious?"

I said yep.


These awe inspiring practices are truely a sight to behold, let me tell you...

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Bob Sacamano;3611775 said:
If anyone has gone to mini-camps, TC, and regular season practices, what exactly does the defense do in drills? They are abysmal in creating turnovers, seeming to be nowhere near tipped balls, and our secondary is awful at playing the ball, or even looking in it's direction. Not to mention the horrible, pin-ball tackling from the D as a whole.

Do they ever practice tip-ball drills?

Stripping?

I know Wade doesn't encourage the players to tackle in offseason sessions.

So anyone who's gone to watch the D practice, can you tell me all exactly that they do?
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Bob Sacamano;3611775 said:
If anyone has gone to mini-camps, TC, and regular season practices, what exactly does the defense do in drills? They are abysmal in creating turnovers, seeming to be nowhere near tipped balls, and our secondary is awful at playing the ball, or even looking in it's direction. Not to mention the horrible, pin-ball tackling from the D as a whole.

Do they ever practice tip-ball drills?

Stripping?

I know Wade doesn't encourage the players to tackle in offseason sessions.

So anyone who's gone to watch the D practice, can you tell me all exactly that they do?
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They practice getting penalties. Why do you think they are so good at it? ;)
 
Bob Sacamano;3611775 said:
If anyone has gone to mini-camps, TC, and regular season practices, what exactly does the defense do in drills? They are abysmal in creating turnovers, seeming to be nowhere near tipped balls, and our secondary is awful at playing the ball, or even looking in it's direction. Not to mention the horrible, pin-ball tackling from the D as a whole.

Do they ever practice tip-ball drills?

Stripping?

I know Wade doesn't encourage the players to tackle in offseason sessions.

So anyone who's gone to watch the D practice, can you tell me all exactly that they do?
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They teach Campo the latest Hip Hop dance moves..........didn't you see that on Hard Knocks?
 
During the season, no one really knows.

During training camp, they work on different things on different days so it's difficult to generalize. In a typical day, they start off doing more individualized things, then work on team defense, then run plays against the offense. A single practice session will last 2-3 hours.

Yes, they work on interceptions quite a bit.
 
theogt;3611837 said:
During the season, no one really knows.

During training camp, they work on different things on different days so it's difficult to generalize. In a typical day, they start off doing more individualized things, then work on team defense, then run plays against the offense. A single practice session will last 2-3 hours.

Yes, they work on interceptions quite a bit.
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Could you elaborate?
 
Bob Sacamano;3611882 said:
Could you elaborate?
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They work on breaking on the ball. And a bunch of basically pass catching type drills from the defensive back standpoint rather than as a receiver. Tip drills. Things like catching while running toward the ball. They do things like this daily, though not necessarily the same thing every day.
 
The defense let 2 runs get away from them, otherwise, they did a decent job of holding Chris Johnson in check.

1st QTR: 57yds on 8 carries (1 carry of 29yds)
2nd QTR: 11yds on 2 carries
3rd QTR: 9yds 2 carries
4th QTR: 54yds on 7 carries (1 carry of 47yds)

But we knew this team would be good against the run and they have been for the most part. We knew it was the 2ndary that had problems last year and would have problems this year. The team sort of addressed it, but obviously that wasn't enough. This 2ndary is weak. The Dline/OLBs are doing their job. The ILB...eh, I'm not sure, but the 2ndary is a liablity right now.

But they don't play in squads, they play as a unit, so if one part fails, they all fail. When they had the players-only meeting, what I heard was a 2ndary that was concerned, but a Dline that felt things were OK.

Looking at the stats and especially this game.... the Dline is ok mostly and the 2ndary is worried. The problem is that the Dline should be worried about the 2ndary as much as they are about themselves. It almost seems like an "i'm going to get mine and everybody else be damned" thing going on out there. WHo knows, but that's what I see.
 
theogt;3611919 said:
They work on breaking on the ball. And a bunch of basically pass catching type drills from the defensive back standpoint rather than as a receiver. Tip drills. Things like catching while running toward the ball. They do things like this daily, though not necessarily the same thing every day.
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Why are our defenders never anywhere near the ball then? Are they just that bad?
 
They play Tiddly winks.

Sounds exhilarating
 
jamesdojr;3611805 said:
Over the last two seasons, I've been to 6 preseason practices. Here's what happens...

Special teams trickles onto the field. FG kicker kicks the ball around a little. Players walk onto the field. They talk to each other and laugh. Many of them for what ever reason, begin to kick around a soccer ball. This seems to be a favorite of the DBs. Especially Terrence Newman. The BIG STARS like Romo and Witten jog on to the field late so they can make their GRAND entrance. Then they sit down and stretch and jog through a couple of drills. They then run about 20 - 30 plays - no tackling of course. The coach blows a horn that signifies that the practice is over. The players leave in their sports cars to go spend their money.

I seriously had a friend go to a San Antonio practice with me. He's not a football fan but he went just to hang out with me. After the practice was over he looked at me and said, "that's it, are you serious?"

I said yep.


These awe inspiring practices are truely a sight to behold, let me tell you...

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that made me throw up a little
 
Our defense doesn't have enough playmakers. Aside from DeMarcus Ware and Mike Jenkins, there are no REAL playmakers on this defense.
 
DOUBLE WING;3612137 said:
Our defense doesn't have enough playmakers. Aside from DeMarcus Ware and Mike Jenkins, there are no REAL playmakers on this defense.
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Agreed. Which is why Jason Williams, Sean Lee, and AOA should be seeing the field.
 
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