Keith Butler saw a big step up from his defense against the run from 2017 to 2018. Despite losing his best player in Ryan Shazier, his unit found a way to go from ranking 27th in yards per carry allowed in 2017 to ninth in 2018.
Much of that was because of the improved communication and composition of the defense in how it reacted to offensive adjustments and maintaining gap integrity. We dig in to show you how that happened and why they can carry that upward momentum into 2019:
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