Quote:I laid this out pretty clearly in a thread last December about points assigned to the Jags D that were actually more the responsibility of the offense/ST, but there is still a clear emotional attachment to the guy for some based on the excitement he brought in 2015.

 

I've seen it and it was badly misguided. All defenses face short fields or turnovers/special teams plays that go for TDs. Most defenses also hand some of those back to the offense. The Jaguars defense didn't do that. They were terrible at creating turnovers, and they weren't good enough at making critical stops late in games.

 

You can try to equivocate it by coming up with stats like trying to reassign points to other phases of the team instead of the defense, but the defense was not some strength of the team getting a raw deal from the rest of the team, the defense wasn't good enough, either.

---