Defensive coordinator Teryl Austin warned anyone who would listen before the season began that the plan was for his defense to be just as dominant as it was in 2014, but he was going to have to go about it a little differently.
The coordinator is the same, but the defense is different. The personnel is different. The strengths and weaknesses are different.
“It does (look different), we’re probably, in terms of coverages, maybe a little bit different coverage-wise, a little bit different pressure package and that’s the things that we’ve been doing,” Austin said.
“Some things a little bit different, which I’m sure you saw when we put (Darius) Slay a couple times off the corner.