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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha
With the exceptions of Taylor, Archuleta, Carter, and Holdman, our entire defense has been injured. Springs, Rogers, Marshall, Washington, Daniels, Griffin, and Salave'a have all suffered from injuries and the defense simply lacks the depth to account for such losess.
Our offense, on the other hand, was relatively injury free up until now. Moreover, the offense has more weapons than the defense. Can you imagine how bad our offense would be if 7 of its starters were injured? It would be atrocious.
So, given the injuries to the defense and lack of injuries on offense, you're comparing apples and oranges.
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It's not apples and oranges at all. We're talking about football and why this team loses - I'm simply saying I place a substantial amount of the blame on the defense, far more so than on Brunell.
Injuries happen. It's football and you've got to prepare for that. Sure, maybe the offense "has more weapons" and has performed less to expectations. They're stacked with depth at WR and RB. The coaching staff and FO screwed this team by having virtually no depth on the defense, particularly in the secondary.
The offense is largely healthy and underperforming, though I wouldn't say they're atrocious. The defense is banged up, and screwed because they've got no depth, and they are getting absolutely hosed for the most part.
Maybe it would be more accurate to blame the coaching staff/FO for the problems on defense by not providing depth to allow a cushion for injuries, rather than blame the players for underperforming. Either way the result is we've got something like the 26th ranked defense in the league regardless of who you want to blame.