SideLion Report » Dom Capers http://sidelionreport.com A Detroit Lions Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:38:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Breaking Down the Packers Defense http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/09/breaking-down-the-packers-defense/ http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/09/breaking-down-the-packers-defense/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:14:01 +0000 http://sidelionreport.com/?p=4620 This week, the Lions will go up the Green Bay Packers, who had the second best defense in the NFL last year, and the best defense in the NFC. As usual, a lot of their success on defense can be attributed to their defensive coordination Dom Capers, who in my mind doesn’t get enough credit as a [...]

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]]> This week, the Lions will go up the Green Bay Packers, who had the second best defense in the NFL last year, and the best defense in the NFC. As usual, a lot of their success on defense can be attributed to their defensive coordination Dom Capers, who in my mind doesn’t get enough credit as a coach.

He started his professional coaching career with the New Orleans Saints in 1986, and was their defensive backs coach until 1992, when he was hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers as their defensive coordinator. It was during his years with Pittsburgh that began the Steel Curtain era, and he gave the right type of players to future defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau to develop the zone blitz scheme (which Capers also runs).  After his stint with the Steelers, Capers went on to be the head coach of two expansion franchises in Carolina and Houston, and was relatively successful with both of them.

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