01-17-2018, 01:33 PM
(01-17-2018, 12:17 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I don't know how you can even pretend to act like the playoff game is a fair comparison when discussing the defense or even the win-loss record with the Steelers that season because the defense would have been on the field a lot less, been playing from ahead longer, and entire game would have been different.
We gave up the same number of points to the Steelers in the playoffs (31) that we did in the regular season (29 per game).
But just ignore the playoiffs if you want to. We were in the bottom ten of the elague in points allowed in '05. Odell made a bunch of big plays to help the defense, but he was out of position a lot which hurt the defense. He certainly was not the worst player on that defense, and he was not the only reason we gave up a lot of points, but he was not all that great either.
