We have a good Defense

militaryjoe said

Quite often, I hear a lot of people complaining about our defense. Well, here is a question for you. Just how good do you expect for our defense to play when the offense is constantly turning the ball over. Case in point, during the first 6 games, we were all raving how surprised you were about how well the defense has been playing. Do you think that all of a sudden, we suck? The secondary is crap? You can even have the 85 bears defense playing for the current saints and you can best beleive that if they were on the field as much as our defense have been there will be all kind of breakdowns in coverage and every where else. I apologize about the rant, but just think about how often all of those guys are on the field, especially after a quick interception or fumble.
Oh yeah,
GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Any defensive performance is measured on their ability to stop the opposition in scoring!.......so the question should be....is the Saints D able to stop the opposition on a regular basis?......Can they STOP THE RUN??......OR THE PASS?

All the "other" stats ARE IRRELEVANT to a great degree, if the D can't STOP THEIR OPPONENTS! The Saints D can't stop anybody, save the 2 games in which their D WAS THE DIFFERENCE!!.....we won 6 games on the back of our OFFENSE, which OUTSCORED their opposition!....We outscored the Packs, the Eagles, and Bucs (twice), and we only beat the Browns and Falcons WHEN WE STOPPED THEM WITH OUR DEFENSIVE PERFORMANCE!.....in every other game the opposition lead us at some point, and it was our offensive performance the difference in our wins!

That points to a BELOW AVERAGE D, and if we are looking at our losses, our D was the problem in 3 of our losses!....we lost the Panthers game in the 4th qt, when our D FAILED to stop their running game.......we lost both the Steelers, and Bengals games, when our D FAILED TO DEFEND THEIR RUNNING (Steelers), AND PASSING (Bengals) GAME........either way, our defensive performance, (or lack of it) was the MAIN REASON we lost!

Of course on top of all that, was the turnover DISASTER, which put even GREATER PRESSURE ON THIS BELOW AVERAGE D.....that didn't help either!......but we can't dismiss our D's inability to create turnovers, and STOP the opponents!