Defense needs to be better against the run

[droopdog7]

I love the aggressiveness, and all the negative plays. But the D is being exposed on the ground. I know the game has changed but I don't think you can be a great defense unless you stop the run.

 

[RS12]

If you cant stuff the run, you dont win in any league from Pop Warner on up.

 

[TWOK11]

It wouldn’t have mattered at all with better QB play. Philly had 275 yards of offense.

 

[HungryLion]

They need better DT play. I’ve said it a hundred times and I stick by it.

 

[TWOK11]

If you cant stuff the run, you dont win in any league from Pop Warner on up.

Running the ball/stopping the run has almost no statistical correlation with winning and hasn’t for about 15 years.

 

[MysteryIceGuro]

Won’t matter when this offense is anemic and accident prone as ever. Never seen a team drop so many balls and have so many turnovers.


Don’t get me wrong, the run defense is horrible (like it is EVERY year) but mobile QBs seem to be a problem for every team in the league. They just can’t be stopped. We need to do better stopping RBs tho.

 

[Yoshimitsu]

Defense did well considering Rush gifted a top offense great field possession three times.

 

[droopdog7]

It wouldn’t have mattered at all with better QB play. Philly had 275 yards of offense.

Yeah, the defense is still very good

 

[Ken]

I love the aggressiveness, and all the negative plays. But the D is being exposed on the ground. I know the game has changed but I don't think you can be a great defense unless you stop the run.

Philly ran it 38 times for a 3.5 average. If we don't turn it over and do stupid stuff like going for it on 4th down in our own zone...they don't have that much because they wouldn't have had all of those possesions.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

They gave up 275 yards of offense. You are suppose to win with that.

 

[baltcowboy]

I love the aggressiveness, and all the negative plays. But the D is being exposed on the ground. I know the game has changed but I don't think you can be a great defense unless you stop the run.

Need to play better against the RPO.

 

[jwooten15]

The DTs need more beef. But then again, that’s nothing new. We’ve been saying it for 25 years

 

[Big D]

Ya think?

 

[baltcowboy]

They gave up 275 yards of offense. You are suppose to win with that.

3 turnovers was the difference.

 

[JayFord]

well...thats an rpo/option team

its hard to defend when you dont know who has the ball

we'll clean it up

 

[RS12]

Running the ball/stopping the run has almost no statistical correlation with winning and hasn’t for about 15 years.

Apparently you missed the 4th quarter Egirl drive.

 

[Whiskey Cowboy]

They were on the field the majority of the first half with terrible field position. They limited Philly to 6 points in the second after the offense figured out how to play football. Not a great performance, but they played well considering the circumstances.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Running the ball/stopping the run has almost no statistical correlation with winning and hasn’t for about 15 years.

 

[TWOK11]

Apparently you missed the 4th quarter Egirl drive.

Has nothing to do with my post. Purely from a statistical perspective, rushing success has almost no correlation with winning any given game.

 

[RS12]

Has nothing to do with my post. Purely from a statistical perspective, rushing success has almost no correlation with winning any given game.

We will have to agree to disagree because not stopping the run had a whole lot to do with not winning tonight.