11-22-2017, 09:10 PM
(11-22-2017, 05:23 PM)Wyche Wrote: Absolutely 100% all of this. The offense is way more culpable in all of this. No question. However, as you noted, the defense has had their own 3rd struggles as of late. Could it be their numbers are inflated from playing bad offenses overall?
They started off against a bad Ravens offense (18th scoring), a Texans offense that was starting Watson for the first time (6th), gave up the game in GB in the only game the offense really played well (20th scoring), then the Browns (32nd), Bills (19th), and Colts (25th). Jax (8th) GASHED them from the opening kickoff, a dominant rushing performance. The Titans (15th) ran all over them, as did Denver (24th). Pittsburgh (14th) just totally beat the cornbread hell out of the entire team.
Yes, the offense is abysmal, but I think the defense has a couple fatal flaws that offenses are beginning to exploit, and maybe their numbers are a touch inflated due to playing against offenses that have had their share of scoring problems themselves
This could all be true as well Wyche. I have been pretty disappointed with the Defense this year even with the lack of a
running game on Offense. Thought they would be much better once they moved on from Peko and Maualuga who were
one trick ponies. I knew it might take Minter a bit to pick up the Defense and Billings awhile to get back from that injury
but thought some of the rest of the guys would of picked up some slack better.
Need to tackle better and cause more turnovers. Like you spoke of earlier, redzone Defense has been pretty good.
Minter getting healthy again and Billings continuing to get his legs back will help. Also need to see less of Adam and i
am not sold on Dre even after the last game where he made two huge plays. I like WJ3, Dennard and even Shaw better
for the future at Corner. Bottom line is this team just plays too passive on both sides of the ball.
