Beginning with marathon meetings in January, the Cleveland Browns’ defensive coaching staff has analyzed the team’s run defense from top to bottom. New strategies and players have been added. Stopping running backs, or even keeping them in check, is arguably the team’s top priority heading into the 2015 NFL season.
Thursday night against the Redskins, coach Mike Pettine was finally able to grade results against another team and the grade sheets were obvious where improvement needs to be made.
Excluding the -1 yard for the quarterback kneel, the Redskins had 19 carries outside of the tackles for 120 yards, showing the Browns had trouble setting the edge on the outside.