Team Defense Rank 21

lavered said

Admittedly a concern. I hate giving up all those yards, though I can rationalize most of them as garbage time. But I do have to give props to the defense not only on attitude, but they made the stops when they had to, bent but didn't break (I know, a cliche), made the turnovers, and even scored. So I'm torn, how serious do I take the defensive ranking or these other pluses, which don't factor in the ranking number?

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I agree with the props for the D, but I kinda disagree with the 'bend don't break remark'. I think we forget sometimes exactly what GW said he would do when he came here and why he would do it.

GW said that with the O here it would allow his D the freedom to be aggressive and take risk and I think that is exactly what they are doing.

When the chips are down and they really need a stop they focus on that and have been fairly successfull especially against the run. That risk taking is going to give up big plays and that was his whole point, that this O could cover those points off big plays.

This D is only gonna get better, but the big plays will always be there while we are being aggressive.

JMO
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