What Giants are Getting in Shane Bowen
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00:00 Tyler, I have to ask, I know Mike Vrabel was a defensive minded coach.
00:05 How much of what the Titans ran was Vrabel's system versus what Bowen brought to the table?
00:12 Well, I think it's interesting because the Titans over the last, you know, five years,
00:17 the Derrick Henry era, we'll call it Giants fans will probably understand that they've
00:20 done so many different things.
00:22 You go back to like 2021, they were much more of a man coverage team.
00:26 They like to play their man.
00:27 I mean, obviously most teams in the NFL are playing zone more often than not, but when
00:31 it was money downtime, the Titans would be man.
00:34 And we've seen recently in the past couple of years, the Titans have gone to much more
00:38 cover four and much more cover two and some of those situations.
00:42 So I think one good thing about Shane Bowen is he has the ability to bend his defense
00:47 to what's needed.
00:48 Now, I don't think he's ever going to be like the Wink Martindale star.
00:51 We're playing man all over.
00:52 We're putting six guys on the line of scrimmage.
00:54 We're blitzing all the time.
00:55 I just don't think that's what's in Shane Bowen's DNA.
00:58 I think he's much more of a cover for cover to style guy.
01:01 But I think one thing that I like about Shane Bowen is that he will have the ability to
01:05 mold to what his defense does best, what is going to be best to beat the offense.
01:10 He's a multiple and varied guy.
01:12 And I think in today's NFL, you know, there are certain philosophies in football of, Hey,
01:18 like the old Legion of Boom Seahawks, we're playing cover three, we're lining up, you
01:22 know what we're doing, beat us.
01:24 But there are other versions, I think more in today's NFL where it's, Hey, we're going
01:28 to match whatever you're trying to do to beat you and be more varied and be more malleable
01:34 in what coverage as we run a run and seeing the Titans go from a team that a lot of cover
01:39 one didn't play a lot of cover two to this year, they played more cover, cover two mixed
01:45 in a lot more cover for a match cover for where, you know, kind of after the wide receivers
01:50 declare their routes, the safety and the cornerback will say, okay, now we're playing man coverage
01:54 on these guys because they came into our zone.
01:56 So I think, um, Shane Bowen is going to, it's hard to say because Vrabel only had one year's
02:03 defensive coordinator, but I think Mike Vrabel through what we've learned anecdotally and
02:08 through stories about Mike Vrabel's time there, he is, wants to be a more varied guy, wants
02:12 to be more multiple in the coverages that he runs.
02:15 So I think Shane Bowen got promoted to defensive coordinator for the Titans because he agrees
02:19 with those things.
02:20 So I think while it may not be Mike Vrabel's philosophy on what to do and when to do, because
02:25 I think Vrabel definitely wasn't run this now run this next third down.
02:29 I think Shane Bowen having some freedom may be a better thing.
02:32 I don't really have a lot of faith in Vrabel as a defensive coordinator.
02:34 And I think the examples that we have prove that out.
02:37 So I would be more optimistic about Shane Bowen as a defensive coordinator away and
02:42 under from under the thumb of Mike Vrabel because it'll give him the ability to do more
02:46 what he wants to do and I think he's got a better idea of what to do than Vrabel does.
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