01-06-2019, 01:42 PM
(01-06-2019, 01:25 PM)bfine32 Wrote: meh, if we're being objective we's use the stat that the NFL does to rank defenses and that's total yards. The year after Marvin left Washington they fell to 25th in total defense with that same star-studded D.
And are we seriously going to act like having a legendary DC doesn't matter?
Meh, usually objective folk don't mind looking at additional facts to come to a reasonable conclusion. If I put up a natonwide poll asking NFL fans if they'd rather have the defense that ranked 10th in yards and 13th in points allowed, or the one that ranked 5th in yards and 21st in points allowed, the majority is going to take the former. Unless they have some kind of agenda, like defending a coach they like. Ahem.
As for why the Skins fell off the following year, they lost Darrell Green, Daryl Gardener and Sam Shade. Plus Bruce Smith finally fell off. To the point where he didn't even start half the games, and posted roughly half the stats of the previous year.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
