Team defense

[The Franchise]

Guys emphasize the 120 number to advance their own agenda. Doesn't sound as good as saying 70 something or 80 something. If we were 120th in scoring and 80th in total D, they'd be talking about the scoring rank.

Typically, folks refer to scoring defense and scoring offense when evaluating coordinators. How often do you hear a fan talk about average yards per game when evaluating their offense? Not too often. They always talk about points per game because that's how the game is scored.

That is the only real way to do it.

Scoring Points and preventing points are what matters, I could give 2 $hits if we let up the most yards in the nation per game BUT BUT BUT held them to 15 points or less each game.

Another thing to keep in mind, which seems to escape a lot of fans, is that having a sh1tty defense for a year doesn't necessarily mean your DC is garbage. Lots of dudes subscribe to the Situational Idiocy Theory when it comes to coordinators instead of looking at their body of work. Did Corch Duh' take a blunt force trauma to the coconut last year and suddenly get retarded? His final year at Temple his D was ranked 16th in the country, and his first year here I'm pretty sure we were 17th or 18th. Suddenly, when he was playing almost an entire defense that was getting its first game action, and he was forced to use freshmans DT and slugs like Darius **** and had the 3 pylons back there at Safety (7, AJ, and Rodeo) we stunk.

There's no doubt that our defense stunk to high heaven last year. I'm just one of the few that isn't certain it was Corch Duh's fault. I don't understand how corches suddenly get stupid overnight.

 

[surfcane]

Look at the Falcon game yesterday - Seattle could do nothing then the Falcons only real pass rusher - John Abraham reinjuries his ankle - goes out of the game and now Seattle scores on 4 of 5 possessions. Also - he has been hurt off and on this year and last few years and the Falcons D has been hot garbage without him almost every time is not playing - yesterday being a prime example. So yes, actually having one very good (not sure I would use elite for JA) passrusher vs none can change an entire D and how it performs. (And yes there are other factors that played into all this but that was the biggest change to D on the field)

 

[Consigliere]

Guys emphasize the 120 number to advance their own agenda. Doesn't sound as good as saying 70 something or 80 something. If we were 120th in scoring and 80th in total D, they'd be talking about the scoring rank.

Typically, folks refer to scoring defense and scoring offense when evaluating coordinators. How often do you hear a fan talk about average yards per game when evaluating their offense? Not too often. They always talk about points per game because that's how the game is scored.

That is the only real way to do it.

Scoring Points and preventing points are what matters, I could give 2 $hits if we let up the most yards in the nation per game BUT BUT BUT held them to 15 points or less each game.

Another thing to keep in mind, which seems to escape a lot of fans, is that having a sh1tty defense for a year doesn't necessarily mean your DC is garbage. Lots of dudes subscribe to the Situational Idiocy Theory when it comes to coordinators instead of looking at their body of work. Did Corch Duh' take a blunt force trauma to the coconut last year and suddenly get retarded? His final year at Temple his D was ranked 16th in the country, and his first year here I'm pretty sure we were 17th or 18th. Suddenly, when he was playing almost an entire defense that was getting its first game action, and he was forced to use freshmans DT and slugs like Darius **** and had the 3 pylons back there at Safety (7, AJ, and Rodeo) we stunk.

There's no doubt that our defense stunk to high heaven last year. I'm just one of the few that isn't certain it was Corch Duh's fault. I don't understand how corches suddenly get stupid overnight.

Correct.

Group think is scary.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

Again how many yards = 1 point?

Wow, that's taking me back. I used to have several betting systems based on Yards Per Point, circa late '80s and early '90s. That stat was a favorite of a handicapper named Mike Lee, who put out a weekly booklet called Mike Lee's Moneymaker, with a full list of every team's Yards Per Point, offensively and defensively. It was quite a convenient list, in the days before the internet. Mike Lee died several years ago, and fairly young.

Off the top of my head I think the average in college football was something like 14.3 yards per 1 point. That was two decades ago. I'm not sure if it's changed significantly. I probably have old Excel workbooks sitting around somewhere, with those systems and numbers.

 

[Mico Jones]

He called every game like we had a 50 point lead and there were 5 minutes left.

The pre-vent you from winning defense.