If gaines was still out there I think our d would look better

No....Heck can take care of that for him.

Defense wins championships. I'll say it every week we lose and give up more than 20 points.

Hali is an old man that has nothing left. Have you noticed how terrible he's been in run defense? No containment on outside runs at all. I've really yet to form an opinion of Berry as I hardly ever hear his name called during a game. One thing is for certain. With Hali falling off a cliff, Houston has to generate a pass-rush all by himself. That's not possible and that's why there's no pressure. No pressure=burnt secondary

Obviously Sutton plays a big role, and he is putting a lot of his guys in position to fail, and he isn't putting guys in position to succeed. Branch covering Cobb in the slot, Berry being the single high safety vs being the box safety which is what got him first team all pro honors.. Parker our saftey with the most range, who also can't tackle playing in the box, Hali playing man coverage against a 4.5 TE, Our only edge rusher worth a hoot (Houston) dropping back on obvious passing downs etc. But in the end of the day our so called pro bowlers aren't even playing at an average level... They all have legitimate reasons, but it's the gods honest truth. And that is not Suttons fault.
DJ is old and is coming off an achilles injury. Hali is old, Poe was average last year, and he's coming off a back injury, Berry just had a cancer a few months ago.

You can blame Sutton for a hell of a lot of things, but you cant blame him for Hali not contaning the edge on literally every outside play to his side. You can't blame him for Poe getting blown off the ball, and not getting any sort of pass rush what so ever. You can't blame him for DJ getting blocked out of plays, whiffing on tackles, and getting burnt in coverage by running backs. You can't blame him for our entire secondary offering 0 run support. You can't blame him Allen Bailey getting blown off the ball, and getting 2 pressures on the QB all game.

EVERY SINGLE FREAKING PLAY.

The Patriots won 35-31 and 28-24 in the playoffs and SB last year.

The last 10 Super Bowls champions were on the winning end of these scores in the playoffs and/or SB:

35-31
28-24
38-35
34-31
48-21
31-25
31-28
35-24
27-23
23-20
38-34
41-27
24-21


If you can't score more than 21 points in the playoffs you are not winning a championship:

- 2003 ravens balanced teams win championships

Never go full reerun and they have reached that point.

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Ballgame. Good night folks, drive safely.

You truly cannot go a single thread without bleeding all over the place about Smith, can you.

The Seahawks allowed 8 points in the Super Bowl, so you're obviously missing something here. This is extremely disingenuous.

Yes you have to be able to score points... but this theory that offense is all that matters isn't right. When Aaron Rodgers won, he had a top 5 defense. He hasn't since, and how many titles has he won? The Patriots had the 8th ranked defense last year. The Seahawks have had one of the best defenses in modern history the last two years.

And even the teams that won with poor defensive seasons played well in the playoffs. The 2011 Giants were terrible on defense during the year, but allowed 14 ppg in the playoffs. The 2006 Colts were awful on defense, they got eviscerated by Jacksonville at the end of the regular season. In the playoffs they allowed 16 ppg and shut down the Chiefs and Ravens. This idea you can win shootouts every week isn't right. Even the 99 Rams won the NFC title game 11-6. At some point your defense has to step up and carry a game. Anyone who watched about 4 seconds of the Vermeil era should know this.

Pretty sure he said playoffs and/or SB.

You have to win those 28-24 games to get to the SB.

And FWIW, Rodgers helped create that Top 5 defense because teams were regularly playing from way behind.

Poe was rushed back, easy to see he's not 100%.

Hali is slowing down, but the effort is still there, he was constantly harassing fivehead, and laid the best hit of the night on him... he was great that game.

Lets atleast blame the right people for whats going on