Don't know if this got posted or not but former DE Stephen White gave serious props to Wade Phillips for his kick ass super bowl defense. It's a great read.
I'm sure that there are a lot of people out there who didn't enjoy watching that Super Bowl. I am definitely not one of them.
You can rail about how bad both offenses were and get all pissy about it being a low-scoring game. That's fine.
Really, it's fine!
For me, however, what I saw was two defenses straight up getting after it and putting their imprint on the game. The Broncos defense in particular put on one of the all-time great performances in Super Bowl history as far as I'm concerned.
Because Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller deservedly took home MVP honors, you might consider him a shoo-in for Hoss of the Week this week. Normally, you'd be right. This time around, I feel like I have to give props to the guy who unleashed Miller and the rest of his compadres on the Panthers, Broncos defensive coordinator Wade Phillips.
It isn't just that Phillips' game plan looked a lot like the one I said that Denver should employ. It's also that he had the guts to actually implement such a plan that was both unconventional and fraught with huge potential downsides if it didn't work. Had Cam Newton run for a bunch of yards on scrambles with the edge rushers getting upfield, there would have been no shortage of people second guessing Phillips after the fact and wondering why he didn't just do what everybody else does against mobile quarterbacks. You know, the bull rushing and shit. I could hear that imaginary peanut gallery right now grilling him on the wisdom of also playing so much man-to-man with his pass rush going at Newton full throttle.
Sorry, had a coughing fit from laughing my ass off at the thought.
A lot more at the link.
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/2/10/10...-demarcus-ware
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Originally Posted by EastCoastBronco
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