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Old 09-28-2010, 05:06 PM   #299
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Re: The Official Defense Has Major Issues/Fire Jim Haslett Thread

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Originally Posted by saden1 View Post
What numbers do you have on your side? Last weeks 17 point second half give away and 526 charity yard ? Or this weeks 133 rushing yards, 7-16 third down conversion and 30 point giveaway?


You got nothing...if I wanted to buy shit you wouldn't have any to sell to me! I all hear from you is "we've lost our queen but, look, we took out all his pawns" week in and week out.
Was that your C game?

First of all, it's not that uncommon to give up 20 points in a half. It happens 4 or 5 times per week in the NFL. The Texans actually had just done it to the Colts the week before.

That 133 rushing yards comes out to 3.6 yards per carry. Someone can try to convince me that's good (It'd be great if we had not let Jackson go for 42 and a TD on us -- 9 rushes for 16 yards on all of Jackson's other carries, btw), but I'm unconvinced.

7-16 third down conversion is about league average. We don't know how good the Rams offense will look. This might look like a really bad figure at the end of the year (bottom three or four offensive unit), but probably just "meh". We were 0-8 on passing third downs. That's bad vs. anyone.

A 30 pt giveaway necessarily requires that you count the drive that started on the 3 yard line after the Moss turnover. I don't know. Seems to me like it would be unreasonable to expect a team to come away with no points from there. Of course, the Rams had first and goal at the one at the end of the first half and didn't score, so the defense had to have figured out something in that situation.
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