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Though he is not being hired to be the Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Womens Phillip Lindsay Jersey , Vic Fangio has spent 19 seasons as an NFL defensive coordinator starting with his stint as the first ever defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers. He was also the first ever defensive coordinator for the Houston Texans. That being said, I think there is much we can learn from not only how his defenses have performed, but from the production that he has gotten from his defensive players. Much like Wade Phillips, Vic Fangio, as a defensive coordinator likes to adapt his scheme to fit his players, not the other way around. He should be able to get the most out of Von Miller, Bradley Chubb, Derek Wolfe and (even) Demarcus Walker.It is widely reported that the Broncos and Vic Fangio want Ed Donatell to the be defensive coordinator. That would make sense as Donatell has followed Fangio to San Fransisco and then to Chicago. For him to follow Fangio to Denver makes all the sense in the world. It also stands to reason that if Ed is running the defense then the defense will be the same defense that Vic would be running if he were the defensive coordinator. THis could end up with something like what Andy Reid does in KC where he is not the offensive coordinator, but he really is the offensive coordinator. For those who might remember the name, Ed Donatell, he was the defensive backs coach for the Broncos in 2009 and 2010. That 2010 defense was one of the worst in the history of the NFL (I’m not exaggerating, I remember writing about this back in 2010 when I was just a reader and fanpost contributor here). Of course, Ed was also our DB coach for five years in the late 90s including for our back-to-back Super Bowl winning teams. So how have Fangio’s defenses done statistically during his 19 seasons as a defensive coordinator. Here is a table that is pulled directly from pro-football-reference.com.Firstly, there is plenty to digest in this table. Focus on the column labelled Pts. He has had five different stops: Carolina, Indianapolis, Houston, San Francisco and Chicago. He built a defense in Carolina through the expansion draft and the regular draft that was 8th in points allowed in its first season and 2nd in points allowed in its second season. The 1996 Panthers team made it to (and lost in) the NFC championship game. His defenses got progressively worse in his 3rd and 4th years in Carolina, finishing 13th in points in 1997 and 27th in points in 1998. After getting let go from the Panthers, Fangio landed the DC position with the Colts under Jim Mora. In 1999, the Colts defense was good enough to allow a young #1 draft pick QB by the name of Peyton Manning to the lead the team to a 13-3 record. That defense was good enough to allow the Colts to lose a heart-breaker to the Titans (19-16) in the divisional round. The Titans would go on to play in their one and only super bowl that year, losing a heart-breaker to the Rams. The Colts defense in 2000 was comparable to their 1999 defense, but the Colts would only finish 10-6 and lose in the wild card round to the Dolphins. The 2001 Colts defense was terrible, finishing second to last in past allowed. The Colts would finished 6-10 leading to the firing of Jim Mora and the loss of a DC job for Fangio. After Indy Fangio moved on to the Texans where he had the task of building the Texans defense from the ground up much like he had with the Panthers. However, he was not able to replicate the immediate success that he found with the Panthers defense. In fact his defenses in Houston never ranked better than 15th in points allowed and the Texans never finished better than 7-9 while he was the DC there. After finished 2-14 in the 2005 season, Dom Capers was fired as the head coach and Vic was again out of work. His next stop would take him to Baltimore where he would get to coach the linebackers and Ray Lewis in his prime. In his four years with the Ravens as LB coach, their defense would finish 1st, 22nd, 3rd and 3rd in points allowed and make the playoffs three out of four years. The one year they didn’t was the year the both Ed Reed and Ray Lewis got hurt. In 2010 Jim Harbaugh, whose brother John was on the coaching staff in Baltimore with Vic, would convince Vic to move with him to Northern California to be the defensive coordinator for the Stanford Cardinal (notice that is singular since it is a color, not a bird). That Stanford team would finish 12-1 overall, 4th in the country and win both the Pac-10 and the Orange Bowl. Fangio would make very good use of an extremely intelligent tall CB named Richard Sherman who was very quick but not very fast. You might have heard of him. Other than Sherman, Fangio had very little in the way of NFL-level talent on his defense. Stanford would have only one other defensive player who played under Fangio drafted, Sione Fua, who spent some time with the Broncos. Jim Harbaugh would then get hired away by the 49ers and ask Vic to make the move with him back to the NFL. Fangio was the DC for the 49ers from 2011-2014. His defenses in San Francisco were great. The 49ers were 2nd, 2nd, 3rd and 10th in points allowed during Vic’s four seasons there. Those defenses were led by two dynamic ILBs in Navarro Bowman and Patrick Willis - both of whom were AllPro in 2011 and 2012. Bowman was named 1st team AllPro in 2013 as well. The 2014 defense that only finished 10th in points allowed had neither Bowman or Willis. The 2014 season would be the season where the 49ers locker room imploded forcing the firing of Jim Harbaugh and the loss of a job for Vic. So this brings us to Chicago where Vic was most recently as the defensive coordinator. His defenses were in the bottom third of the league in points allowed for the first two seasons in Chicago but then improved to 9th in 2017 and 1st overall in 2018. It definitely helped for the Bears to get overrated OLB, Khalil Mack from the Faiders, but Fangio had been doing a good job of developing the defensive talent that they have been drafting during the previous three seasons. From 2015-2018 the Bears did a good job of finding starters for their defense in the draft. In 2018, six of their 11 starters (7 of 12 if you count their CB3) on defense were drafted by the them (or signed as UDCFA and developed). The other starters were good free agent signings (Akiem Hicks, Danny Trevathan, Prince Amukamara) or via trade (Mack). It would appear to me that we can expect a return to dominant defense if history is to be our guide. I would also not be surprised (assuming Fangio has significant input into the draft) to see the Broncos using a high draft pick on a speedy ILB/MLB like Roquan Smith. Here are the news and notes from day 3 of Broncos camp." Denver Broncos Training Camp2019 Denver Broncos Training Camp: Day 3 news and notesNew John Elway Jersey White ,20commentsHere are the news and notes from day 3 of Broncos camp.MDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:2019 Denver Broncos Training Camp: Day 3 news and notesTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesDay three of Denver Broncos camp is now in the books and it was an eventful one because they wore pads for the first time this summer. Former Broncos great Head Coach Mike Shanahan visited the facility, met with everyone, and watched today’s practice.Today we have the Broncos defense continuing to dominate, rookie wide receiver Juwann Winfree is turning some heads, more rotation at the inside linebacker position, Noah Fant shows up in the red zone, tight end Austin Fort is a name to watch, an injury report, news and notes and more!Disclaimer: I was not at camp and this is just a collection of news and notes from other sources with my thoughts and opinions sprinkled in.Defense continues to dominateThe Denver Broncos has dominated every practice thus far and that continued again today. The pass rusher continued to get after the passers and the secondary forced a total of 4 interceptions today. Two be safety Justin Simmons, one by safety Will Parks, and the other by linebacker Josey Jewell who caught one after it was tipped at the line of scrimmage. As a defensive minded coach, Vic Fangio has to be happy with this type of performance but now that he’s a Head Coach, he is also concerned with the offensive performance. So when asked if he was okay with the quarterbacks throwing all these interceptions so far, he said he is not.He likely wants to see both sides do well, but so far, it has been one sided. Today was another example of that with all the interceptions. Safety Kareem Jackson told reporters after practice that he felt the secondary had a “pretty good” practice. Safety Justin Simmons who had two interceptions of his own today, one off Joe Flacco and the other off Kevin Hogan. After practice, Simmons was asked how he felt about the turnovers and he obviously said that he felt good about it while also still saying he can get better.If the Broncos want to be successful this upcoming season, they need their defense to play like this. A Vic Fangio led squad is expected to be good here anyways, but it is still a good sign.Rookie wide receiver Juwann Winfree is turning some headsOne name that continues to be mentioned in each and every practice has been rookie sixth round pick, wide receiver, Juwann Winfree. Today he continued to flash and caught a deep bomb from fellow rookie Drew Lock.Another fellow rookie, guard Dalton Risner singled out Winfree as a player who he thought was standing out this far.One instance of his breaking out was noted in Andrew Mason’s camp blog. He notes that Winfree made a big-time catch against two of the Broncos veteran defensive backs.Winfree is a big receiver who has dealt with injuries throughout his time in college, but when healthy, he flashed real potential. Through three days of Training Camp practices with the Broncos, that potential is continuing to flash.Joe Jones and Josh Watson receive first-team reps at linebacker Yesterday, Alexander Johnson took first-team reps in place of injured inside linebacker Todd Davis in the first-team defense. Fangio told reporters that we would likely see new faces there today as they continue to rotate and that is exactly what happened today.We saw special teams ace Joe Jones and rookie Josh Watson get 1st team reps today.Jones told 9NEWS Denver’s Mike Klis that it “felt good, real good” to get first-team reps today during day three of Broncos camp.He also said that he has been mostly spending time with the Broncos first-team dime defense which is also interesting. He is an athletic linebacker so I’m intrigued to see how he does in that role.Undrafted rookie linebacker Josh Watson received first-team reps in base packages which a big opportunity for him. Fangio was asked about him and he told reporters that the undrafted rookie has been “fine” thus far but that he has to learn to become and NFL linebacker yet.Watson spoke to reporters after practice and went on about how surreal it was to be calling plays with the first-team defense with some well-known veterans looking him in the eye. A pretty cool moment for an undrafted rookie and a big time opportunity for him as well. With Fangio giving these young guys chances like these, we have a number of players to keep an eye on moving forward throughout camp. Austin Fort is a name to watchAnother undrafted rookie to keep an eye on moving forward is tight end Austin Fort. He has routinely been a name mentioned throughout the past three practices and could be elevating himself up the depth chart.With Jake Butt still getting eased in and Troy Fumagalli is day to day with a hip injury, Fort has a good chance to earn himself some meaningul reps moving forward. It really sounds like Fort is taking advantage of this opportunity as well. The tight ends figure to be important in this offense, so Fort’s chances of making the 53-man roster appear to be growing. He will need to continue this sort of play, but he really has put his best foot forward here. Injury reportReceiver/returner River Cracraft will be sidelined for about a week with a muscle injury.Tight end Troy Fumagalli is day to day with a hip injury.Linebacker Todd Davis remains sidelined with a calf injury. He will be out until about mid-August.Guard Ron Leary is “fine” per Fangio, but they are limiting his reps. News and notesAfter two retirements at wide receiver, the Broncos held try outs at that position today and ended up signing rookie wide receiver Jamarius Way from South Alabama.Quarterback Kevin Hogan’s struggles continued during day 3 of Broncos camp.Don Barclay continues to receive first-team reps at right guard as he spells expected starter Ron Leary.Rookie wide receiver Trinity Benson received some first-team reps today per Mike KlisRookie first-round pick Noah Fant made some plays during red zone work today. A place where we should see him used effectively moving forward. DeMarcus Walker totaled four quarterback pressures and one sack(If it was a game) during today’s practice so maybe the former second-round pick is turning the corner.UDFA edge rusher Malik Reed continued to get after the passer during today’s practice according to Andrew Mason. His odds of making the 53-man roster continue to grow. Tweets from campQuotablesHead Coach Vic Fangio on what he is hoping to see out of T Garett Bolles as he enters his third season.“Just to become a solid NFL left tackle. That’s a simple statement, but that encompasses a lot of things. I like where he’s at. I like his mindset. He’s not going to be perfect. The thing you always have to remember about him is he had such a limited football background prior to coming to the NFL that he’s still in the growing stages more so than other guys.”Head Coach Vic Fangio on what it was like to have former Broncos Head Coach Mike Shanahan at practice.“I was glad to have Mike here. I invited him out wanted him to come. I invited him for the spring work and schedules never matched up, but I was glad he was here. I think it’s good he’s here. Mike’s got a big part in the rich history of this franchise. He’s welcome to come here anytime he wants.”Kareem Jackson on how much time he spent at the safety position in Houston last year.“Last year, I actually started out the beginning of the year playing safety. I played safety throughout camp. I played the first three games as safety, but because of injuries I was moved back to corner. In previous years before that, I would play safety in different packages that we had. I’m very familiar with the position, so it’s all about getting acclimated to our new system here and this defense.”