surfcane
Pipeline Grand Champion
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- Nov 5, 2011
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Q: What do you see that makes you think the defense will be better?
Golden: Well there's a lot of things. Certainly coming out of the spring in terms of our tackling, yards per carry, three and outs, things of that nature. We're attacking more and we're stronger. We have seven guys now on the defensive front that do 225 (pounds) 30 times or more. Mike Wyche comes in and gives us great size and strength, (Calvin) Heurtelou gives us the same. (Anthony) Moten, Chad Thomas - in terms of depth that's the best we've been there on the defensive line in quite some time. We're stronger. The biggest difference I hope is the experience and the quiet mind that we're seeing in the secondary. Everybody is back, everybody is stronger. The belief in each other, the accountability, and we have great leadership, the best leadership we've had in quite some time.
Q: What are the most important factors you want to see improve?
Golden: Tackling is up there. Third down differential, your offense minus your defense - when that's not good your time of possession is not good. We need to get off the field better on defense and convert better on offense. That was a bad matrix for us last year, caused us to be on the field too long. The defense needs to attack more, get more three-and-outs. It's hard to say we'll get more sacks and turnovers than last year. Hopefully we will get more but if we can continue to get to the football those are all things we need to see early on.
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If the bolded part happens (not just talk), the defense should improve a lot.
Golden: Well there's a lot of things. Certainly coming out of the spring in terms of our tackling, yards per carry, three and outs, things of that nature. We're attacking more and we're stronger. We have seven guys now on the defensive front that do 225 (pounds) 30 times or more. Mike Wyche comes in and gives us great size and strength, (Calvin) Heurtelou gives us the same. (Anthony) Moten, Chad Thomas - in terms of depth that's the best we've been there on the defensive line in quite some time. We're stronger. The biggest difference I hope is the experience and the quiet mind that we're seeing in the secondary. Everybody is back, everybody is stronger. The belief in each other, the accountability, and we have great leadership, the best leadership we've had in quite some time.
Q: What are the most important factors you want to see improve?
Golden: Tackling is up there. Third down differential, your offense minus your defense - when that's not good your time of possession is not good. We need to get off the field better on defense and convert better on offense. That was a bad matrix for us last year, caused us to be on the field too long. The defense needs to attack more, get more three-and-outs. It's hard to say we'll get more sacks and turnovers than last year. Hopefully we will get more but if we can continue to get to the football those are all things we need to see early on.
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If the bolded part happens (not just talk), the defense should improve a lot.
