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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
Philadelphia played 12 games against the same teams in the same locations as we did. They basically played the same schedule as us. Despite the slow moving, drive-limiting nature of our playing style, they STILL managed to give up fewer total yards, and points than us, while forcing more turnovers. They were undeniably better. Continuing to deny it is pretty crazy, considering the 4th ranking in pts against and yards against you hold so dearly is one behind the Eagles, and their scores in that category are far more legitimate, thanks to having faced more opponent drives than we did.
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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
Just pointing out, that last year our Defense faced the awesomeness of Cleveland, Cincinatti, St Louis, Detroit.
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Your argument is akin to saying if meteorologists play the Pittsburgh Steelers 4 times in a 16 game season they have the toughest schedule in the NFL. It is neither here nor there. Four games isn't an entire season, how about the Saints, Cardinals, Giants, Cowboys, Eagles. If your argument is that Philadelphia had a harder schedule, you're wrong. Look up whatever stats you want on that for the 16 games and you can see that. Philly also played Cleveland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis. The only different teams we played were New Orleans (#1 in points and yards) and Detroit (actually ranked better than the Redskins in points), but yeah they were bad.
In any case teams are different over the course of the year, even if its in the same location. We were a completely different team in in the beginning of the season versus the end, and you can say that about a bunch of teams. But for 2 of those 12 games, one near the beginning and one near the end that were on the same day at the same location I saw one defense outperform the other both times, but apparently that was undeniably oppositely viewed by you, irrelevant to you, or maybe you just missed the games.
If you're arguing that the Redskins offense (28th in points) is better than the Eagles offense (6th in points) you're wrong. That's like arguing the St. Louis Rams defense (28th) is better than the Vikings defense (6th).
The differences in most of the stats between the Redskins and Eagles are small (0.4 points) and 10 yards so I'm saying small differences in stats like that don't matter when there are so many other variables involved from week to week and you don't even really know how important those stats are to a good defense. Slowing teams down not taking risks and making them make the small play slows them down and makes less drives for the other team. Is that a stat? No, but does it make a good defense, maybe. I think that it is wrong to be so sure based on a selection of stats that you choose that doesn't take other variables into consideration. You can have your opinion, but I think that you're opinion the Eagles are undeniably better is crazy and I feel my opinion that it's not UNDENIABLE is more reasonable. And evidence is the fact that many other people will agree with me that the Redskins defense could have been better than the Vikings or Eagles last year. And if you think all those people are crazy, then I think you're just arguing for the sake of arguing and maintaining your original opinion.