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Originally Posted by GMScud
Really all I'm saying is there are a few statistical metrics on both sides of the ball that should get just as much consideration as the "total" (just yardage) stat that gets so much praise.
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#1. Dude, you posted at 2am. I hope you went to bed instead of talking about the same topic all night. LOL.
#2. I simply felt they marked us lower then teams with lesser talent or lower then teams that will be questionable this yr due to change of coaching, and loss of valuable players.
#3. Apparently the writer was not talking about "the backfield" alone cause usually that's refered to RB's and FB's and teams with HB's. I usually don't include the QB in that discussion. If the writer was going to talk about QB's also then he might as well talked about the whole offense and especially the O-line giving the said QB time to throw the ball if they were going to use passing statistics. Simply put a better topic heading would have been "SI Ranks Offenses and their Backfields." I guess I was just being picky about how they ranked the teams, where the Skins were placed and the topic heading.
#4. Whatever statistical data they used to get their conclusion sucks. I presume they are using last yrs stats. Accounting for all the injuries each team had, not counting any additions teams made and then figuring that's how they will be again this yr. I believe adding AH and Orakpo will considerably make our defense better. Whether 4th ranked or not. I think the Skins keeping most of the offensive players, beefing up the O-line, Hopefully a change of pace back, and two WR's and a TE with something to prove makes for a huge change. Truthfully it all amounts to a hill of beans untill the team goes out and proves they can be good. I felt they did that in the first 8 games even though they didn't score 40 points a game. What mattered was they scored more then their opponant. A win was a win. Yes the last 8 games can't be discounted. I just thin a lot played into why we were 2-6 in the last 8 games especially against teams like San Fran who had a mediocre yr like us. We had a new offense, we had a new HC, we had injuries, perhaps became predictable due to the injuries, had a terrible 2 min drill, plus probably a half a dozen other issues. People can blast JC but the O-line sucked in the last 8 games. People say teams figured out what Zorn was doing, maybe, or possibly teams figured out where the O-line kept breaking down and attacked it. Perhaps they realized JC was only partially confortable in his new offensive scheme and decided to blitz to make him get rid of the ball faster. Hopefully Zorn has figured out the problem and has fixed it. If not I'm betting he's gone also. I don't want him gone for consistancy sake but I bet he's gone.