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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 530827" data-attributes="member: 7277">How far have our standards for a competitive defense dropped if we are supposed to be impressed by games where we gave up nearly 500 yards and 36 points?Shields and Tramon made season-saving plays, at least for the moment, no doubt.  But this was about the 5th out of the last 6 games where our defense has been absolutely gashed on the ground.  Inexplicably, the Cowboys got away from it late.  Take the emotion of the game out of the equation and realize that if the last INT hadn't happened and the Cowboys had driven down for the winning FG, Capers is still under a ton of fire today.  If you look at the play-by-play, we were no more effective stopping Murray in the 2nd half than the 1st half.  The only one who stopped him was the Cowboys.  They just took the ball completely out of his hands.  I'm not saying it's hopeless, just that we do have to take the emotion out of it and realize we are still looking for solutions on how to stop opposing ground games.  The "clog it up" approach with Pickett and Raji is just not working.  On the bright side, I was impressed with Josh Boyd yesterday.  Frankly, I'm more impressed with Boyd than I've been impressed with Raji the entire season.</blockquote>

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