Callahan: Why Is Patriots Run Defense So Good?

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00:00Why are they so good against the run?

00:02Like, what are they doing that makes them so effective?

00:05It's a good question because this is something that's carried over from Tennessee,

00:10as has the kind of – it's not a bad pass defense,

00:13but it's a little disappointing, if we're being honest,

00:15just the way the teams can consistently throw on them.

00:17They're allowed completion percentages north of 70 right now.

00:19And against the Jets, there were opportunities there that weren't taken advantage of.

00:24Yeah.

00:24By the Jets.

00:25Shout out A.D. Mitchell.

00:26Right.

00:27So in Tennessee, they were always outstanding versus the run,

00:30and sometimes their personnel was better than others.

00:32But consistently, elite run defense, so-so pass defense.

00:35That's held up here.

00:36I think this isn't much about just how they teach the defense,

00:40and it all sounds like cliches when we ask the guys after,

00:42oh, how'd you hold another runner at a few of them 50 yards?

00:44But the way that they swarm and how confident they are to get there

00:48and setting an edge that once you have everyone kind of to the ball,

00:52as long as you're not allowing him to escape outside, you're going to be fine.

00:55And that's what they've done really well this year,

00:57not just with your Harold Landry's, but Marcus Jones has been a big piece of this

01:01because sometimes he's behind Caleb on chase on who teams have been picking on now for months

01:06and going in his direction and often getting good long runs.

01:09But behind him, that run support, they call them force players.

01:12You know, even sometimes it's Christian Gonzalez or Carlton Davis.

01:15They've been very physical.

01:15And that has been a staple of Mike Rabel's defense, again, dating back to Tennessee,

01:19physical, violent defense.

01:21Should we worry about, we saw Tucker kind of get on track against the Patriots a couple weeks ago

01:26when the Jets had some success, and now Milton Williams is out.

01:29Should we be worried moving forward?

01:31The Milton Williams piece is the one that worries me the most.

01:34And Doug Kyde, my man at the Herald, was kind enough to split the film review this week.

01:38So he watched more of the defense versus the Jets.

01:40I studied it.

01:41I didn't write about it.

01:42But he wrote there was a clear drop-off once Milton left that game with their run defense.

01:46Now, the Jets only run the ball.

01:48So when they get more yards than average, they're running more than average than other teams.

01:52That I'm not worried about.

01:54But it's the depth.

01:55And this has been the concern with this roster where, you know, I thought they'd be 9-8.

01:59Obviously, I was wrong.

02:00They've been fantastic.

02:01But your margin for error is smaller in that when you miss a player like him,

02:04now the strength of your team, this thing you could bank on week to week to week,

02:07it's not gone, but there are cracks.

02:09And if Corey Durden or Joshua Farmer is not up to those early down plays that are forcing teams

02:15into second and eight and third and six or longer, then this is a different ball game.

02:19You can't play defense the way you've wanted to because you're missing a player like Milton Williams.

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