SI Ranks Offensive Backfields

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

1) I said don't start. You're entitled to your opinion. You'll be happier keeping it to yourself.

2) Not the NYG game? Not the Cincinnati game? I dunno man, an average performance in those three (SF included) games, and we could have easily been 5-3 in the second half of the year. And that's still including the full on offensive collapse from units that weren't the offensive backfield. Even if you give back the second Philly game as one that you would have thought we lost by the way our offense performed, that's 10-6, plus a playoff berth.

True, there were games we got blown out in where our defense, and offense both played poorly. You could say that Pittsburgh blew us out. That Baltimore blew us out. That the Giants blew us out on opening night. You could even argue that Dallas blew us out coming out of our bye (even though that was a 4 point spread, we got so badly outplayed in that second half). But it was those other 4 losses where the defense, not the offense let us down. And that number trumps the amount of games our "No. 4" defense won for us.

Then perhaps the defense should not have been ranked 4th. I don't know. I like to fool myself and say most of our losses were due to injuies to the O-line and lack of WR's and quite possibly teams that ran the 3-4 that had a big nose tackle. Rahbach to me seemed to get steam rolled in those games. I could be way off. Defensively the team could not get off the field to save it's life. Lastly the team is simply going to just have a bad day.

Now if you going to prove me wrong I'm just going to cry. LOL. Cause in my little pea brain these things can be fixed. LOL.