One unrelated thing I want to add here is that Parsons has looked much better at DE than LB. I’d rather play him there - he was disrupting game plans. Too often as a LB he just ends up falling back into coverage, which takes him out of his strengths.
I know some will disagree but these fair questions. Don't get me wrong, love the win but I'd be lying if I said the chunk plays we're giving didn't scare the hell out of me. The good news is we have plenty of time to clean it up,
I know some will disagree but these fair questions. Don't get me wrong, love the win but I'd be lying if I said the chunk plays we're giving didn't scare the hell out of me. The good news is we have plenty of time to clean it up,
No such thing anymoreSo this year who’s the defensive juggernaut? Because I was told the Panthers were the best defense snd Cowboys dominated them. This discussion is about defensive stats.
Who are the best defenses?
At the end of the day I don’t care about how many yards we give up. Tell me how many points we allow or how many sacks we get or how many turnovers we get.
Points are what matters. Being in soft coverages or prevent that allows yards but not points is exactly what you want the opposing offense kills their own clock.I would be concerned if the D continues to give up chunk yards after 17 weeks. They are young with limited experience, with multiple injuries in key areas so I'm not surprised so far. They are getting BETTER each week and those key injured players will come back to make this team better.
3 inch headlinesI keep seeing that we don't need DLaw, so the defense must be fine.
Agreed, we need to tighten up the defense
We had zero sacks yesterday against a depleted offense... We need D-law...end of story.I keep seeing that we don't need DLaw, so the defense must be fine.
great post. That^ is why I been saying we are a work in progress and haven't arrived just yet. It may not be this year. I think year 2 will be the real litmus test under DQ. Right now we just playing with house money. Nothin to lose defensively because NOBDY gave us a second thought. I see a bright future with the trajectory the D is on.Stats of course don't tell the whole story. But they can give indications. So having said that, just how is the D?
Pts allowed - 10th, at 109. But Bills have given up exactly half that, 58.
Yds allowed per game - 24th. While teams can give up lots of yards but still be a good defense, that's worrisome.
Passing yards per game - 31st. That's awful. Can't win SBs that way. But if they're playing with a lead "garbage time" yards don't mean that much.
Rushing yards per game - 5th. I was surprised at that, seemed they give up a lot more than that. But per the numbers, that's great run defense!
Sacks - 23rd. Missing Lawrence hurts, but even so, sacks are huge in this league, 22 teams already have double digit sacks, need to pick that up.
Ints - FIRST!. But of their 10, six are by Diggs. What happens if teams quit throwing his way? Will somebody else pick up (pun intended) the slack? If not then your great int stat goes out the window.
Not sure it really is meaningful, but if you average those 5 above, it comes out to 16.80, or about 17th. Few SBs have been won with a defense that far down, it has to get better...
Agree and we need Gallimore manning the middle next 2 Osa. That eats up space and free's up the ends 2 get sacks.We had zero sacks yesterday against a depleted offense... We need D-law...end of story.
Runny, I would agree with you if D-Law was actually doing something before getting injured. Having no sacks and very little tackles before suffering injury this season doesn't help his case.I keep seeing that we don't need DLaw, so the defense must be fine.
It's tough to rank that way at this point. I think if they don't get turnovers they are way below average but they do continue to get turnovers and that is part of what our DC is scheming for so it can't be discounted or taken out of the equation. They need to upgrade CB#2 and prove they can stop the run. We knew coming into the year that this team spent much more of their cap dollars on Offense so we don't need a top 10 defense to compete. The important thing we needed this year was improvement and the defense looks miles ahead of where we were last year. I'm elated with how well they are playing so far. There is a different attitude, they are fast as hell and they keep forcing mistakes and beating up QBs. I suspect when we get healthy (if) we have another level in us. We are still without our preseason expected starting DE, DT and safety (and some rotation guys too). And the guys that are playing are playing so well that two of those guys may not even be starters when they come back. I'm actually excited to watch our defense play this yearI believe the defense is below average to average overall.