Defensive Coordinators Rankings: Bob Babich
by Dane Noble on Jun 3, 2009 4:02 PM CDT
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To follow up on the post about the top-20 Offensive Coordinators, here we bring you the top-20 Defensive Coordinators. This one may have been a bit tricky, considering Bob Babich is still our DC, but has been relegated to essentially our LBs coach. Lovie Smith will be taking over the defensive play calling duties, but is technically not our DC.
Considering there isn't much going on in the world of the Chicago Bears and Halas Hall today, let's take a look at the top-20 Defensive Coordinators, according to Sporting News.
Before we jump, where do you think Babich falls?
If you said "Babich will not be in the top-20", then you are most definitely correct. But, if you are wondering, Ron Rivera came in at number 14.
14. Ron Rivera, Chargers. He has experience coaching the 4-3, the Tampa-2 and now the 3-4 scheme. Although the Chargers will remain a 3-4 front, Rivera incorporates aspects of the other schemes. That means more aggressive play-calling in terms of blitzes and letting Shawne Merriman loose behind a more talented defensive front.
It is also worth noting that two NFC North DCs made the top-5:
3. Leslie Frazier, Vikings. He has the horses up front to send a nice pressure package at quarterbacks, and he likes to play some mixed zones behind it with cornerback Antoine Winfield more often in press coverage. With DE Jared Allen joining the team last year, the blitz package is a thing of the past, though it could return if the Williams Wall misses significant time.
5. Dom Capers, Packers. He is a diehard believer in the 3-4 defense. We wonder whether Green Bay has the pieces to make the change in '09. Capers knows the scheme inside and out and has been through the transition before. He can guide players like Aaron Kampman, A.J. Hawk and Nick Barnett through struggles
Thoughts?
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figures
we have the talent now, but I bet the coaching will let us down…
by DaNate23 on Jun 3, 2009 4:51 PM CDT reply actions
They would have lost more than credibility
they would’ve lost their internet privileges.
Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!
by ifuwannacrownem on Jun 3, 2009 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
The Bears Den...
…where we love our team as much as we hate our offensive and defensive coordinators.
"They tried to take out the quarterback, and if they managed that, they tried to take out the backup." - Bears SB20 TE Emery Moorehead, on the mentality of *that* defense
Leslie Frazier
He’s a good DC but that article gave like half the credit to the fact that he has a ton of talent on that team. Just because you have good players doesn’t mean you are a good coordinator.
Dom Caper's ranking is based on reputation, nothing else.
Everyone seems to think that the Packers will turn it all around changing to a 3-4 with 2 rookies starting on defense. Raji and Matthews haven’t done squat yet, and there are no guarantees they will be able to dominate at the Pro level. BTW, Raji looked like a big tib of goo at the combine. The only way you can refer to him as ripped is maybe his shorts.
Meant to say tub of goo... It'll be interesting to see what kind of condition he's in.
The kind of shape he’s in, I see injury headed his way.
My guess was 31st before I read the article
but I really can’t say who’d be worse than Bob.
"Like a young contortionist, for the first time coming into his own...." -Bert Sugar
How about top 20 worst
defensive coordinators all time? He’d at least crack the top 10.
"Like a young contortionist, for the first time coming into his own...." -Bert Sugar
Babich bites...
And I’m being nice. And Lovie, who I like, sucks for chasing away Rivera to put in his boy. Now he’s trying to save face by not firing him. Just taking over playcalling. Well… Uh… Rivera’s scheme fit. Babich comes in and mangles it. If that continues, we’ll have issues on defense yet again.
28th
Maybe a little high, but there were certainly some serious deficiencies on the Bears defense last year.
"I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." - Dick Butkus
"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu
Bob Babich
couldn’t find his ass if you filled it with uranium and handed him a geiger counter.
"Like a young contortionist, for the first time coming into his own...." -Bert Sugar
I will agree with there is no way Babich should be the one of the top twenty DC. But you have got to look at what he has done with the linebacker corp of chicago. Possibly one of the best in the NFL. And now with a refurbished defensive line. the only thing that really works is a very unknown secondary. But I believe we could see a much improved year on the defense of chicago. Till the season starts no one can really say anything till we see what happens. The players are pretty much the same group. With a few changes here and there. You cant really bag on a group that spends 60 to 75 percent of the game on the field.
Where would Lovie rank?
I mean if hes calling plays, he is the defensive coordinator. I think Lovie would have made the list.
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.- Mike Ditka
by Hurricanes becoming Bears on Jun 4, 2009 1:23 AM CDT reply actions
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