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#3 Dean Pees
At number three is that former DC of Martindale, who I just talked about. I have always been a big fan of Dean Pees, who kind of is one of the original guys to run that hybrid scheme with a base 3-4 front, but a bunch of different odd and even alignments to confuse blocking schemes. Not a lot of people may think of them that way, but the Titans right now are allowing only 18.3 points per game and these last two have been the only matchups, in which they have allowed more than 20 points per game.
They are also tied for sixth in total takeaways (14) and third down percentage (33.6), even though, even though their offense is bottom ten in most offensive categories.
What Pees is really good at is giving opposing quarterback obvious pre-snap looks and then completely changing things up as the ball is snapped, such as lining his free safety up in the middle of the field, but then bringing him down at the snap and letting his corners sink into cover-two or showing a five-man rush with his two outside linebackers on either edge, but instead bringing both inside backers and dropping the outside guys into the respective hook-zones.
Tennessee has a D-line they can rotate through, one of the best inside linebacker tandems with Jayon Brown and Rashaan Evans, corners who can re-route their guys and stay on the hip pocket and highly versatile safeties led by Pro Bowler Kevin Byard. That’s how they led the Patriots to ten points at home last year and gave the Browns a rude awakening in the season-opener.
