azcardinals.com: Saturday 04-03-04 Practice Report

[Jim O]

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The Cardinals held two practices on Saturday as part of the weekend long voluntary mini camp.

“We have a lot of nicks, bumps and bruises so we have a lot of guys who are not practicing, but that is more repetitions for the guys who are,” said Head Coach Dennis Green. “Sometimes they (injured players) are watching and listening, but sometimes they are riding bikes or running. We want to make sure they are earning the meal they are getting and that becomes important. We are a lot more injured than we would anticipate for this type of work, but we’ll get through it.”

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[b8rtm8nn]

Deja vu

Last year in training camp, they were talking about the shift from read and react to an attacking D-Line - but then the defense was still pretty reactive during the season. I guess if the Rams have a reactive defense and we have an aggressive defense, we will know which coaches talk a good game and which ones produce.

 

[Shuesters2]

Last year in training camp, they were talking about the shift from read and react to an attacking D-Line - but then the defense was still pretty reactive during the season. I guess if the Rams have a reactive defense and we have an aggressive defense, we will know which coaches talk a good game and which ones produce.

Concur,

I was going to post much the same thoughts. Last year the talk was about a penetrating defense... and zip, nada, nope... same old, same old. History says Denny does more than talk a good game. The players sure seem to think its different, hopefully it will happen this time.

Shuesters

 

[jmr667]

If I remember right last year the coaches were talking about shifting to a one-gap defense. I don't remember any of the players talking about changes being made. This article Jim posted has quotes by several different position players talking about the new defense. This year it looks like things really are going to be different for the defense.

 

[slanidrac16]

I was thinking the same thing. Thats all we heard last year. Attacking defense. Getting after people. We kind of did that in pre-season then it seemed to go away. Truth be known, do one thing good. Stop the run, especially on 1st down and you will have a better defense. If an opponent is loking at 2nd and 4, all the pass rushers in the world will help.

 

[Crimson Warrior]

Man, thats good stuff. I love to hear about attacking defenses.

I hated that three-man-rush crap that we ran so often last year.

MAYBE you run a prevent defense once per game, just to confuse the offense. But, when the other team has third and 14, most of the time, I want the their back field to look like a jail break.

At a minium, you rush four.

 

[bigredjane]

Conditioning-

is so important at this point, I felt that our players were to prone to injury for several seasons. Maybe that is what Green is saying and hopefully will seek a remedy in the work outs. Too many hamstring injuries, especially with our receivers, seems as though Frank Sanders was always hampered with one! Maybe more stretching as with dancers. Also a little Yoga could help! (Don't laugh), Eddie George does Yoga everyday.

 

[Brevity]

Man, thats good stuff. I love to hear about attacking defenses.

I hated that three-man-rush crap that we ran so often last year.

MAYBE you run a prevent defense once per game, just to confuse the offense. But, when the other team has third and 14, most of the time, I want the their back field to look like a jail break.

At a minium, you rush four.

Exacto-mundo, it drove me crazy last year when, in third and long situations, the Cards would apply absolutely no pressure on the opposing QB. This made the DB's look awful. You can't cover everyone for an eternity.

I don't think our D-line was that bad. I think it was mostly "scheming" that did them in. When an attacking style of "D" gets the other team into a third and long situation, why would you abandon that for a "soft zone"?

Thats why I am counting on the new coaching staff to improve our pass rush just as much as the addition of Berry. Although I would be more comfortable with the addition of a 2 gap DT.

 

[red desert]

Exacto-mundo, it drove me crazy last year when, in third and long situations, the Cards would apply absolutely no pressure on the opposing QB. This made the DB's look awful. You can't cover everyone for an eternity.

I don't think our D-line was that bad. I think it was mostly "scheming" that did them in. When an attacking style of "D" gets the other team into a third and long situation, why would you abandon that for a "soft zone"?

Thats why I am counting on the new coaching staff to improve our pass rush just as much as the addition of Berry. Although I would be more comfortable with the addition of a 2 gap DT.

As in Vince Wilfork?