Actually, the rest of the post was on point. And none of that was disputed.
But I don't think there is a universe that exists where you can call last year's defense 'pretty decent'. Not a dig any poster, just the reality of our below par, substandard, DC.
All those weaker teams did was allow us to walk our offense back and think we could somehow be competitive with that defense and a turtled-up offense.
And it took the first playoff game to show us that was ridiculously incorrect. We struggled to stop a run game with some noname RB and essentially no QB. And then we let that missing QB with half a hand, complete enough passes to give them enough successful drives to win the game.
The defense is and will be our Achilles heel and our weakness for the entire year. Because unless Norton ends up in quarantine (not for Covid, just for being so godawful a DC that we are afraid might infest the players) we are going to have the same problem.
Norton is the problem until he proves he isn't. Playing a bunch of crappy QBs and so ending up winning games despite your below-average defense isn't going to change that.
Until that changes, that has to be the narrative:
A QB that wins despite his coach, with a mediocre to poor defense, on a team that will somehow make it to the wildcard game.
They will also be the team that any team that isn't a wildcard hopes to draw in the playoffs, because they will be an easy win against. The Rams wanted us for that reason last year, were proven right, and that probably will not change this year.
We are a fun and competitive team to watch in the regular season and one of the easiest draws/pushover in the playoffs. (unless we face another wildcard)