FLSkinsfan
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I love it when teams talk about injuries. If any team understands injuries it is us. The main reason we have been so dismal for the last 15 years is due to injuries to key players that we have depended on, but you move on to the next year and hope things are better.
When we lost Rak and Carrigan and the other defensive players, the back ups were not prepared to take on that roll and we had to make adjustments to their strengths to make our defense better. Everyone wants to attack our pass defense, but if you look at the stats, that is why we made it to the playoffs at year end. Games 1-9, we had the worst pass defense in the league. We had the bye week and came back to 3 straight divisional games. Games 10-16, we fixed the issues and we would have been ranked in the top 10 in pass defense. We gave up 299 ypg passing in the first 9 games, and only 212 ypg passing in the last 7 games.
That is what teams do when they have injuries. They adapt the scheme to the talent that they have and they make it work. Teams that do not do this end up like we have the last decade. It is nice to see our coaches making the changes and not letting the team harp on the injuries. I do not want to here about injuries anymore from anyone. Make it work and move on. The only injury that really matters to a team is the QB. Most backups are not even close to the starters ability (look at Indy, one bad year, add Luck and back on top.)
When we lost Rak and Carrigan and the other defensive players, the back ups were not prepared to take on that roll and we had to make adjustments to their strengths to make our defense better. Everyone wants to attack our pass defense, but if you look at the stats, that is why we made it to the playoffs at year end. Games 1-9, we had the worst pass defense in the league. We had the bye week and came back to 3 straight divisional games. Games 10-16, we fixed the issues and we would have been ranked in the top 10 in pass defense. We gave up 299 ypg passing in the first 9 games, and only 212 ypg passing in the last 7 games.
That is what teams do when they have injuries. They adapt the scheme to the talent that they have and they make it work. Teams that do not do this end up like we have the last decade. It is nice to see our coaches making the changes and not letting the team harp on the injuries. I do not want to here about injuries anymore from anyone. Make it work and move on. The only injury that really matters to a team is the QB. Most backups are not even close to the starters ability (look at Indy, one bad year, add Luck and back on top.)