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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
Week 6 @ KC: 28 points allowed
Week 8 @ NY: 36 points allowed
Week 10 @ Tampa Bay: 36 points allowed
There were clearly signs of an impending defensive collapse even in the 2005 season. No one could have predicted the sheer magnitude of the turnovers we didn't force this year, but the yardage and point totals were nothing that couldn't have been predicted.
If you believe the offense was so bad, you have a lot of explaining to do to justify how we won 4 more games in 2005 than 2004 with a considerably worse defense.
I think you are assuming the 04 and 05 defenses to be equals in the same manner you assumed all Denver backs to be equals and all of our opponents to be equals. The 2004 defense was as dominant as they come. The 2005 defense was not a dominating defensive team. They were good, but flawed. They did a very nice job against TB in the playoff game, but carried the team is a bit much. They were one Edell Sheppard catch away from being the goats.
The offense improved immensely in 2005 because Brunell, Portis, and the offensive line all improved immensely AND we traded for Moss. That's an very potent team who led us to a lot of victories all year. They were far more consistent than the defense was. It's unfortunate that come playoff time when we had to play the best defenses, our offense was banged up, but injuries determine the team best fit to play for the championship, and we clearly got the shaft in that respect.
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Stooooooooooop already, how many points did they score the last 3 games we played? I think our defense almost outscored them. If you think for 1 second that our defense didn't have to carry that team your just simply lost on this subject.
Take a look at who we didn't have against Tampa, Sean Taylor, was KC the most prolific offense in the league? Yes! And we mailed one in against the giants, and how many points did the offense score in that game? 0
And you fail to mention the fact that the offense was constantly 3 and out wearing the defense down all season long, why do you think all the talk was we were out of gas heading into the Seattle game? In the 3 most important games of the year what did the offense do? Nothing! Our defense either scored, or set up a short field for a TD against Philli to get into the playoffs, as well as Tampa in the playoffs, and if Rogers makes an INT against seattle they may have won another, no thanks to the offense!