2008 defense Stories - Niners Nation
The Defensive War For The Roses
Or: Why Everyone Who's Entirely Sure That USC Will Win By Double Digits Is Lying. (Note: I know some of this was covered by Paragon in the post below, but it's worth expounding on the defensive showdown coming on both sides.) Per stats stolen from Yahoo, here are the top five teams in defense so...
It's Called Defense, Morons, and We'll Show You How To Play It
"No Man's Land is pocketmarked like the body of foulest disease and its odour is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. Hideous landscapes, vile noises....everything unnatural, broken,...
Denver Broncos Hanging Tough, Building this Defense
We are beings of self-made souls. Every mind is a mason. Sometimes it is difficult to find examples of this, and easy to mistake the light of dawn for the setting of the sun. Giving up 30 points a game is a dim light indeed. And sometimes the confluence of people and events which point to this...
Semi-rational irrational prediction: 49ers defense will be ranked in the top of the NFL
Last week I threw out my semi-rational irrational prediction that Vernon Davis would make the Pro Bowl this season. Originally that was just going to be a one-off post with nothing to follow. However, there are plenty of things I think will happen in the coming season that are just as...
The Most Important News Article I've Read This Offseason
On this otherwise innocuous Sunday not quite 8 weeks from the first Game Day of the season, I have read what may be the most important newspaper article on the LSU football team to arrive this offseason. In today's Advocate, Scott Rabalais has a piece on new LSU defensive co-coordinator Bradley...















