Last Year's 3-2 start

Originally posted by SJniner7:

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by SJniner7:

Originally posted by BubbaParisMVP:

Originally posted by tondiman:

Even if the offense is holding the ball.. If they aren't putting points on the board it just puts more pressure on the D. The D can't hold up that long. At least not this young D.

I agree, then factor in the 3.5 (last I checked) turn overs per game and this D is being asked to do the impossible.

The turnovers are the big difference this year. Defense was creating turnovers, not the offense.

2010 Offense has 15 turnovers
2010 Defense has 4 INTs and 2 FF

First 5 games 2009:
2009 Offense had 5 turnovers
2009 Defense had 9 turnovers

You can see that our defensive turnovers have only dropped by a few (3), while our offensive turnovers have tripled...

We ave 15 turnovers? My lord. Let me guess, Smith is responsible for at least 35% of them.

35% x 2... well, close anyway, Smith responsible for 10 of them...

Hey backontop, the D has only created 3 less turnovers, but the O has committed 10 more! And that is the defenses fault for failing?

Originally posted by SJniner7:

Originally posted by Joecool:

Originally posted by baybreaker707:
Last year we held our opponents to an average of 18 points. I used 20 points for the Vikings game so I took away the last second TD by Favre. This year we are holding opponents to an average of 24.8 taking away the late FGs by NO and ATL. It looks like it's safe to say that if you hold your opponents to under 3 TDs you win. I'm not saying this is entirely on the defense because the offense has had plenty of blame as well, but the defense hasn't looked good for an entire 4 qtrs this year compared to last.

When this statement has to be made in terms of a defense allowing points, then there is or was something seriously wrong with the offense and in our case, it was turnovers.

Do the defensive numbers include Smith giving the other team 14 points? (pick 6, and fumble 6)