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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And I think that's where I part ways with most.
I think it's legitimately competent now. No, it's not going to shut down great offenses but NOBODY does that. The Panthers got !@#$ing strafed last night and that's another team who people would consider as having a good defense.
In this league, good offense is going to beat good defense - full stop. It just is.
This personnel group, even without Houston and Berry, has gone out there and played several solid football games. That qualifies as 'competent', IMO. And I'm not even sure what 'good' is in this game anymore. I guess if you only get your shit pushed in ever 5 games instead of every 3, that qualifies as good. If you manage to keep premier offenses under 35, that's good. I mean it's just so damn hard to identify what 'good' even is in this league anymore.
Near as I can tell, the only team that comes close to qualifying is Baltimore - they did some damn nice work against the Saints (though it was the Saints on the road). And even Baltimore got wrecked against Carolina.
Any defense in the league is capable of having 35-40 points hung on them on any given week nowadays. And it's gonna happen to some team that gets called a 'good' defense in the posts-season.
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I'm close, absolutely close to being there - but I need a litmus test against a great offense before I'm sold.
Don't get me wrong - we don't have to shut out the Rams.
But I want to see us at least trip them up on enough drives to be competent.
Weirdly, in today's NFL, holding them between 30-35 points would be plenty competent for me.