(10-29-2024, 09:01 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: https://twitter.com/JuMosq/status/1851015271294947823

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(10-29-2024, 08:12 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Trevor now needs a top 5 defense, a top 5 rushing attack, a top 5 offensive line and a top 5 WR core that doesn't drop passes and leads in explosive plays in order for this team to win. It has to be perfect. We all know this now. It can't be 73 degrees nor 75 degrees, it MUST be 74 degrees at ALL times in order for him to succeed.


1/9 on 3rd down. An INT gifted to the offense by the defense early, only to be returned right back to sender inside our own 20 that led to 7 points, followed by that fumble inside the 5 yard line that led to another 7 points. 

The defense has been atrocious this year, nobody is arguing this, nobody is defending it. However, again, in the grand scheme of things? Why should I be offended by this defense when it's a new coach and scheme when I can look at the other half of the team and coaching staff and say:

1. Doug Pederson, Press Taylor & Mike McCoy have all been here since day one and it's year three now with the same QB and core trio of players.

2. The offense has been the slow starter, not the defense. The offense was handed three to five punts in the first half as well. They did nothing in return. 

3. The offense continues to turn the football over or kill itself with self inflicted wounds when within striking distance. The ETN fumble, the D'Ernest illegal procedure, the two wide open TD's missed in Houston and the two turnovers in this past Sunday's game, etc. 

Getting awfully tired of one unit being praised or treated like a turd with sprinkles on it while blaming the other unit for the entirety of the team's issues this season. This whole [BLEEP] team. With the exception of Little and Cooke, they all have had moments of dog [BLEEP] out there more than flashes of brilliance. Period.

I know you don't like looking at numbers because you said it's for nerds but try this one out. Which one do you think shares more of the blame? The dead last defense or middle of the road offense?

And Trevor doesn't need top 5 anything. How about an average defense? Considering the amount of money and resources poured into the defense, for them to be dead last is the biggest failure of the season by far.

As I've stated many times, offenses, defenses and special teams don't play in a vacuum.  What happens in one phase affects the other.  It's called complimentary football, coaches reference it a lot and it's usually very important in determining the outcome of games.  The defense and special teams showed up early and provided opportunities for the offense that were not capitalized on.  3rd and 3 becomes 3rd and 8 because of a Gabe Davis false start ([BLEEP] Gabe Davis man) and then on 3rd and 8 we see an incompletion to BTJ and are forced to punt from the Green Bay 48. 

When you punt 70 yards out of bounds to the 2 yard line and your defense holds forcing a return punt to mid field, YOU. HAVE. TO. SCORE. on that opportunity with that field position even if it's just a field goal and we didn't.  

Green Bay then flips the field with a long drive.  Fortunately, the defense makes a play near the goal line for the interception and then we give it right back because 2 receivers were in the same spot at almost the same time and Trevor throws it right to the defender who was allowed to stay put.  I don't think the guys designing the plays are dumb and I don't think they designed a play to have the two receivers in the same spot as they were, so someone was almost certainly out of position for one reason or another.  I look forward to someone looking at the all 22 on this one and determining whether Kirk ran a bad route or if BTJ was slowed down by a defender at some point.

To your point, the defense has clearly been worse than the offense more often than not especially in recent weeks, but everybody owns this.  It's not all one side's fault as you say.  The blame pie doesn't have to be divided up evenly, but everyone gets a slice.  I think this team has the talent to win these games.  We could easily now be 5 and 3 or 6 and 2 if a few plays turn out differently, but I don't mind saying that had we passed on Gabe Davis in free agency and signed someone else or just rolled with the guys we already had on the roster I think with that alone we'd probably have 1 or 2 extra wins.  Dude has been that bad in my mind with the penalties and the drive killing drops and I was one that believed he was a smart, value target to go after at the end of last year and we are now unfortunately stuck with him at least thru next year.  Dude stinks out loud.

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