Can the Rams' defense be a top-five unit under Wade Phillips?By Alden Gonzalez
LOS ANGELES -- Wade Phillips has taken over nine different defenses, as a defensive coordinator or a head coach, and nearly every single one of them improved significantly in the first year. He has served a combined 34 seasons in those roles. In 18 of those seasons, his defenses finished within the top 10 in fewest yards allowed. In the last six years, three of his defenses have finished within the top five.
Will his Los Angeles Rams be next?
"I have a good feeling about this team," Phillips, the Rams defensive coordinator, said last week, when asked if his latest defense had the makings of finishing as a top-five unit. "Again, we’re only in shorts and we haven’t done anything live game-wise, which we’ll get to. I feel good with where we are right now. Comparatively to the teams that I’ve gone to in the first year, I think they’re right on par with those teams. And a lot of those teams did well.”
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