Also, I was mistaken about Dak. He literally had a top 10 defense every year from 2016-2019. The 2 years I said they weren't (2017 and 2019) were scoring defense.
So he's had a top 10 scoring defense 2 of his first 4 years, and top 10 yards allowed every year. As I said earlier, the 2 years they weren't top 10 they were #11 and #13, above average.
I'll concede the defense was helped by the ball control offense, but that was really just 2016 when they were #3 in ToP. They ranked #12, #10, and #18 in 2017-2019. The best of the 3 being 30:35 pg and worst being 29:32 pg.
So the narrative about how awful the defense was is overblown. You'd think after 2020 we'd appreciate what was being done with much of the same guys people are ready to throw to the wind. Instead we're seeing fans jump on players who were asked to do things many had never done and quite frankly weren't equipped to do.