Opposing teams high completion percentage on our defense

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Since 2013, on average, teams have completed 65% of their passes or better on our defense. Last year teams completed 67% of their passes!

Interestingly, it doesn’t matter if it’s Tom Brady or Colt McCoy if you’re playing against our defense you’re guaranteed to complete a high percentage of your passes.

A QB that is on the cusp of being benched might get another week to keep their job if they’re playing against our defense.

Eli has a career average of 60% yet completed 68% last week.

I’m glad we won last week, but games that shouldn’t be as competitive always seem to be because teams are able to move the ball in the air against us well.

I don’t think tomorrow’s game is going to be as easy as the pundits are making it seem.

Thoughts?????

I haven't seen a thread on this topic, and perhaps I'm the only one annoyed about this issue....o_O
 
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Tenkamenin said:
Since 2013, on average, teams have completed 65% of their passes or better on our defense. Last year teams completed 67% of their passes!

Interestingly, it doesn’t matter if it’s Tom Brady or Colt McCoy if you’re playing against our defense you’re guaranteed to complete a high percentage of your passes.

A QB that is on the cusp of being benched might get another week to keep their job if they’re playing against our defense.

Eli has a career average of 60% yet completed 68% last week.

I’m glad we won last week, but games that shouldn’t be as competitive always seem to be because teams are able to move the ball in the air against us well.

I don’t think tomorrow’s game is going to be as easy as the pundits are making it seem.

Thoughts?????

I haven't seen a thread on this topic, and perhaps I'm the only one annoyed about this issue....o_O
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How many yards and points do they get off those passes?
 
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Good ol’e prevent. Does anyone else use it as much as us? We’ve actually had a pretty good W/L record since 2013 though.
 
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This defense is capable of taking more chances, and should. Between 2013-15, this D used to be so lacking in secondary talent, we were one of the worst blitzing teams in the league. QBs gashed us at will when we blitzed.

Marinelli became very conservative in those days, and for good reason. The bend but don’t break philosophy was based on a believe that the lack of talent forced us to keep everything in front of us- almost prevent style rather than being aggressive.

But with the talent upgrades to this defense in the last few drafts, this defense needs to get more aggressive. I want to see more attack and less sitting back.
 
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jazzcat22 said:
Bend but don't break defenses will result in that.
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but that's just it, this is supposed to be a read and run attack system,
it's supposed to create TOs

we take away the deep ball but with no bull rush and next to no interior blitzing ... QBs check down ... control ball

either get real DTs or turn Jaylon and Leighton loose to kill QBs, I'd blitz off the edge as well

frankly, I don't see dominance in any of our DTs, not a savage in the bunch
so 1 gap, man over, and blitz from all directions
 
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If Dallas gets big leads on teams like last Sunday, the defense will be giving up a lot of garbage yards. I'd rather have that issue than have nail-biters every week.
 
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Tampa-2 mindset. Not that the Cowboys play a lot of two deep, but Marinelli is mired in the notion of playing off and hoping opponents make mistakes.
 
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Looking at completion percentage without any other context is pointless.

For instance we dominated Eli and the Giants and yet you use it as an example of our ineptitude defending the pass.
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Yep. And mid 60s in percentage is actually pedestrian in today’s league.

Defenses and offenses should be judged on efficiency (protecting the ball on offense, taking it away in defense), 3rd downs percentages, and red zone scoring. The rest is fluff
 
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Tenkamenin said:
Since 2013, on average, teams have completed 65% of their passes or better on our defense. Last year teams completed 67% of their passes!

Interestingly, it doesn’t matter if it’s Tom Brady or Colt McCoy if you’re playing against our defense you’re guaranteed to complete a high percentage of your passes.

A QB that is on the cusp of being benched might get another week to keep their job if they’re playing against our defense.

Eli has a career average of 60% yet completed 68% last week.

I’m glad we won last week, but games that shouldn’t be as competitive always seem to be because teams are able to move the ball in the air against us well.

I don’t think tomorrow’s game is going to be as easy as the pundits are making it seem.

Thoughts?????

I haven't seen a thread on this topic, and perhaps I'm the only one annoyed about this issue....o_O
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I think you underestimate what's happened with passing league-wide.

Eli completed 66% of his passes overall last year. His career average is meaningless: the NFL was different when he started.
The league average completion rate was 65% last year.

The other thing you're missing is that the defense wasn't all that great last year. They were middle of the pack in yards allowed per drive and points allowed per drive. The reason they came out looking good in total yards and points allowed is that we had very few defensive drives, which is because of our offense's penchant for long time-consuming drives.
 
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Tenkamenin said:
Since 2013, on average, teams have completed 65% of their passes or better on our defense. Last year teams completed 67% of their passes!

Interestingly, it doesn’t matter if it’s Tom Brady or Colt McCoy if you’re playing against our defense you’re guaranteed to complete a high percentage of your passes.

A QB that is on the cusp of being benched might get another week to keep their job if they’re playing against our defense.

Eli has a career average of 60% yet completed 68% last week.

I’m glad we won last week, but games that shouldn’t be as competitive always seem to be because teams are able to move the ball in the air against us well.

I don’t think tomorrow’s game is going to be as easy as the pundits are making it seem.

Thoughts?????

I haven't seen a thread on this topic, and perhaps I'm the only one annoyed about this issue....o_O
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This happens when all you do in practice is go up against a predictable Garrett offense. I do think if the opponent ran curl routes all day long we would be better in defending against it.
 
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mcmvp said:
Yep. And mid 60s in percentage is actually pedestrian in today’s league.

Defenses and offenses should be judged on efficiency (protecting the ball on offense, taking it away in defense), 3rd downs percentages, and red zone scoring. The rest is fluff
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Yessir. The fact we are toward the bottom every year in takeaways and qb pressure % tells me all I need to know.
 
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