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I mean, we can certainly waste a lot of time cherry-picking stats. While we gave up less passing TDs under Richard, the passing defense also increased in total passing yards allowed, yards per attempt, and opponent's completion percentage.Pass defense allowed 27, 22, 30, 27, 28 touchdowns in Glenn's five seasons.
The pass defense allowed 20 touchdowns under Richard, in a seventeen game regular season.
That is a substantial improvement.
I think my larger point is simply that when Aaron Glenn began his tenure here, he inherited a pass defense that was perennially either #31 or #32 in the league. And under his tutelage it became one of the better units in the league (ranked #5 when he left). Richard seems to have picked up right where he left off.
But this revisionist assumption that Glenn did a poor job here (which was the origin of this discussion) is completely baseless and flatly incorrect.
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