From the first month of the season, our nuggets of info based on the weekly charting I conduct.
Ok, big picture stuff. These are all out of 274 total defensive snaps.
– You and I love hearing about personnel groupings so let’s start there.
Nickel: 64.2% (176/274)
3-4: 20.4% (56/274)
Dime: 14.9% (41/274)
Goal Line: .4% (1/274)
That means their “subpackage” defense, 5 or 6 defensive backs, have been on the field for 79.2% of the time. Absolutely crazy.
Keep in mind eight of those nickel snaps, 4.5%, were their “little nickel” of 4 CBs and 1 safety.