kipers first mock draft

[SkinsRock]

Originally Posted by SKINSnCANES

I dont assume we are going to have a dominant defense again, but becuase of our offense not our defense. I think part of why we had a great d is the same reason we had a great d under marvin lewis. Ranking are based solely on yards giving up, with all the turnovers we had early, and our lack of being able to move the ball, the other teams never had to go very far.

We were great at stopping the run, and i do think Williams is a great coach, but if you look at games that our offense acutally scored, our defense gave up a ton of yards, becuase the other teams were playing from behind. Look at the vikings game, culpepper had 300 yards passing. Teams dont need a lot of yards when they are beating us.

I obvioulsy hope our offense pulls it otgether, but i think we need our keys guys to come back, add an end, mabye another dt, and corner, to maintain what we did this year.

I agree with your basic point to an extent, but in defense of our D (no pun intended), they were also 5th in scoring defense, which I believe goes by how many points the team gives up, not just the defense. So if you account for the amount of points the offense gave up, especially early on, they would have been better in that category if the offense didn't blow....not to mention that we would have won a couple more close games.