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The Solak Show 003: Seth Galina on defensive trends and Jonathan Gannon's scheme

Bleeding Green Nation: for Philadelphia Eagles fans

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Banger of a show today as Ben welcomes on Seth Galina, the senior college football writer at PFF, to discuss Why the NFL is slowly moving towards a 2-high defensive meta What about 2-high defenses creates new advantages How the Colts ran their 2-high defense with new Eagles DC Jonathan Gannon on staff How that 2-high defense compares to other popularized 2-high structures in the league, like ex-Los Angeles' Rams DC and current Los Angeles Chargers HC Brandon Staley's system What to expect from the Eagles' defense in 2021 Also Do QBs need to throw middle of the field anymore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today on The Solek Show, we are talking to Seth Galina of PFF, he is a senior college football

0:05.7

writer at PFF and the host of the PFF College Football Podcast. Seth's one of the best scheme

0:10.8

guys that there is and he's been big on two high defenses becoming more prolific in the NFL.

0:16.2

And of course we've talked about two high defenses here on the show before Todd Bowles,

0:19.6

the Buccaneer's defense, what they did in the Super Bowl, but that was all before Jonathan

0:23.4

Ganon became the defensive coordinator here in Philadelphia. With the background under Matt

0:27.5

Eberfluss in Indianapolis and Mike Zimmer in Minnesota, Jonathan Ganon is extremely likely

0:32.5

to run a two high defense here in Philadelphia, a massive departure from single high defenses,

0:37.4

Jim Schwartz ran when he was the DC here. Accordingly, I had to have Seth on to talk from a large

0:42.6

scale view about why two high defenses are being popularized and then from a smaller scale view,

0:47.6

what the cults specifically do in their two high structures, how those compare to other two high

0:51.9

schemes that we've seen be successful over recent years and what we should expect from the

0:56.4

Eagles defense overall in 2021. We also get on some tangents and we talk about Jalen Hurts in

1:02.3

quarterbacking and corner backing and some other really interesting stuff. It's a great interview.

1:06.8

It's all the podcast is today me and Seth shooting the breeze with that said it's pretty heavy

1:12.0

on scheme talks. This is going to be a lot of vernacular a lot of jargon terms concepts and ideas

1:16.1

and for a casual football viewer that may be difficult stuff to visualize. So one of the things

1:20.8

I'm trying out with the show is that if there's a term that you don't understand and there's a

1:24.4

concept that you can't visualize, go to bleenegrenation.com. Find the podcast article for this show.

1:30.0

It'll be titled the soul like show. It'll have Seth Galina's name in it. And in that article,

1:34.0

you'll be able to find timestamped quotes from the podcast with the terms we use with the things

1:39.0

that we said and accompanying video to break down and show you what it is specifically we're talking

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