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[MTK]

I wonder how much better our D would look if the offense could sustain some time consuming drives to let them rest a bit.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Matty:

When the Ravens won the Super Bowl with what was indeed the best defense in the league that year, their offense didn't give them lots of rest.

When the Bucs won the Super Bowl with what was indeed the best defense in the leauge that year, their offense didn't give them lots of rest.

Great defenses - or ones that are arguably the best in the league - don't allow the opposition to hold the ball for almost all of the final ten minutes of a game when only a TD is needed to tie the game. The offense might not score when the get the ball and the team might still lose, but a defense that is "arguably the best in the league" will not let that happen.

I did not keep a game chart for the Browns' game so I can't go back and calculate what happened in the fourth quarter there. But unless I was hallucinating, it wasn't a case of arguably the best defense in the league rising up to prevent a mediocre offense from getting the winning score...

[offiss]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I wonder how much better our D would look if the offense could sustain some time consuming drives to let them rest a bit.

Absolutly! I also believe that, that is all the more reason to play Ramsey, he will make mistakes, we all know it, he's young, and learning a complicated system, but he will also make play's and sustain drives, with our D playing the way they are we should be able to over come his maturation as a QB.

I will also add this, Ramsey hasen't given up point's this year, Brunell has given up 21 point's, through fumbles and INT's, 2 of those games we lost by 6, and 7, points, if he's still learning the system, then let him learn the rest of it as a backup, right now we are seeing what a lot of us new before we traded for Brunell, [ Matty I now you were on board for this ] Ramsey is better now then Brunell, and will have a tremendous future if he stay's healthy, I am speculating right now, but I wonder if Gibb's evaluated Ramsey, and handed him a lot of the blame for SS's failure? I like to think I am wrong on this one, but the thought has crossed my mind.