John63":32oklw2c said:
Okay so if the first series of the game the other team uses 10 minutes that's on the offense? really In the 3 examples, I used we had near equal TOP until the defense let a long drive happen that is not on the offense.,
First of all: What in the world are you talking about? Who said anything about the first series?
Second of all: You cherry picked 3 games. That's nice. Maybe we can ask the league to pro-rate our 3 best games next year instead of forcing us to play all the games?
I you mind if the defense gives up a 10 minutes drive our offense needs to do a 10-minute drive really? And your excuse is because they are better on 3rd and 4th than the offense it's okay that is stupid.
I didn't say that it's ok, I said if the offense is WORSE they are WORSE. In other words, if our offense is doing everything TOP-wise worse than our defense, then THEY are more responsible.
To me everything you say is an excuse to not hold the defense accountable.
Everything you say is to not hold Russell accountable.
The fact they are the worst at getting off the filed
No, they were second or third worst, depending on whether you are going by time per drive or plays per drive. You know who was actually the worst in both categories? Our offense.
fact they spend the most time on the field
This stat is NOT independent of the offense's time on the field at which I just told you they were
worse than the defense.
the fact they are the worst at getting off on 3rd and 4th down
They were NOT the worst at this. I literally gave you this stat just a few posts ago. We were top half of the league in both categories. Where do you get your numbers from?
Fact the give up the most 5+ minute drives
That's very specific and I won't argue it because I don't know, but they still weren't the worst on
average time given up per drive. But our offense WAS.
period AS I have said the offense holds some culpability as does ST and especially the coaches but the majority of that is on the defense.
So even though the offense is the actual WORST in these categories and the defense is not, the majority of our TOP problems go to the D because... reasons?
And, on top of that, despite being very bad at number of plays and time given up per drive, they were good at number of points given up. Meanwhile, the offense was even WORSE at number of plays and time taken per drive but were also bad at number of points scored.