Redskins move to 34 has paid off.

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Originally Posted by irish

I agree, when they were giving up too many points people were focused on how few yards they gave up. Now that they are actually keep teams from scoring and creating turnovers people want to focus on how many yards they give up. Who cares how many yards they give up, its an almost meaningless stat.

People like yards against because defenses that give up a lot of yards tend to keep giving up a lot of yards where points are incredibly dependent on field position and turnover rates.

So you can point to the Redskins struggles with yards and field position and think that this is going to continue to be a meaningful problem. And it is. But as long as turnover rates stay high, the yards against this defense are going to remain academic. Right now, offenses are struggling to pay off their drives with points, and it's because the more plays we force them to make the more mistakes they are going to make in the process.

We're not the best defense at turning offensive mistakes into turnovers, and as long as we keep dropping INTs, I don't see how we are going to improve.