10-22-2017, 10:50 PM
(10-22-2017, 09:48 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: We actually played good competition today. That's what happened.This is very true.
It's time to end the talk about the defense carrying us to the Super Bowl.
I think the defense is better than in years past, but not by a whole bunch.
They've played baltimore (historically bad offense), Houston (QB making first start), Green Bay (folded with the game on the line), Cleveland (not a real team), Buffalo (bad offense, below average QB).
They played NO ONE.
It's now 17 games without the defense recovering a fumble.
This stat does not get talked about enough.
People chalk it up to luck.
Its not luck.
Forcing fumbles is coaching.
You gotta make your own breaks and this team;s inability to force turnovers makes their room for error microscopic.
“It’s easy for everybody to say to make that change," Lewis said last week. "But ... when that change doesn’t work out, what do you do?"
Marvin Lewis on why he refused to make a change at the kicker position.
Marvin Lewis on why he refused to make a change at the kicker position.
