“I know it’s simple, but I like our pursuit on defense with the way we’ve been running to the football,” Philbin said. “I think that in my mind if we now combine that with tackling, that should eliminate some or limit some explosive plays. You can’t and it’s not realistic to say you’re going to give up explosive plays in this league. But I think with the way we’ve emphasized pursuit, with the way we’ve emphasized taking the ball — like punching the ball, stripping the ball — hopefully that will again boost our takeaways. And then I would say on the offensive side of the ball, I think the red zone is really situation-specific and we had a new offense last year. As a whole, I think we feel better about our plan, our scheme, our utilization of people and our execution with where we are in the season.”
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