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The funny thing is that the next time we give up 30 points, all the naysayers will jump out of the wood yard and talk about how terrible our defense is. Our week our secondary is. Cut Newman, fire Campo, Wade hasn't done.........blah blah blah.
We played stellar D for like 7 weeks straight but as soon as we gave up 24 points to the Giants -with at least 2 fluke plays- everybody and their mama came out and said we have a terrible defense.
How many good offenses do we have to hold below their season average (and bad offenses too) to admit that the consistency in the D has been very good/great play all year long?
We might give up some yards to the other team in their territory but from around the midfield till the opponent gets in field goal position (and I don't know they numbers on this but), we have to be the stingiest defense in the league.
The saints get a kickoff return to our 40, we get a 3rd down sack to get off the field that is nulled by a defensive penalty. And we still made them point. It's funny how after the facts people wanna always talk about how the defense didn't make stops when it mattered the most. But a large part of that is because the offense doesn't capitalize on some of the stops we make during the games. Against the Chargers, they had great field position a couple of times were we kept them from scoring at all.
We've held 2 of the best offenses in the league in back to back weeks to way less than their season averages and made their QBs look mediocre at times.
And I believe he Ware hadn't gotten injured, we would've stopped them on that 3rd down play. But that's just excuses.
We played stellar D for like 7 weeks straight but as soon as we gave up 24 points to the Giants -with at least 2 fluke plays- everybody and their mama came out and said we have a terrible defense.
How many good offenses do we have to hold below their season average (and bad offenses too) to admit that the consistency in the D has been very good/great play all year long?
We might give up some yards to the other team in their territory but from around the midfield till the opponent gets in field goal position (and I don't know they numbers on this but), we have to be the stingiest defense in the league.
The saints get a kickoff return to our 40, we get a 3rd down sack to get off the field that is nulled by a defensive penalty. And we still made them point. It's funny how after the facts people wanna always talk about how the defense didn't make stops when it mattered the most. But a large part of that is because the offense doesn't capitalize on some of the stops we make during the games. Against the Chargers, they had great field position a couple of times were we kept them from scoring at all.
We've held 2 of the best offenses in the league in back to back weeks to way less than their season averages and made their QBs look mediocre at times.
And I believe he Ware hadn't gotten injured, we would've stopped them on that 3rd down play. But that's just excuses.