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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 676500">Bortles averaged 277 yds. per game last season.  Even 270 yds. surrendered makes you average against Jacksonville.270 x 16 = 4320 yds. on the season; that's a good season for a QB.Over his 9 years + 1 game as a starter, Aaron Rodger has averaged 269 yds. per game.The Packers surrendered 4,796 yds. passing in 2011, the NFL worst all-time, or 300 per game.  You certainly don't want a repeat of that.The average teams last season (Tampa at 16th., New England at 17th.) together averaged 240 yds. surrendered per game.But that's not the point.  This defense is built to stop opponents in the red zone.  For the other 80 yards of the field, it's about disguises and confusion (theirs more than ours as often as is manageable) to force mistakes and turnovers, while minimizing the big play.  I would think Packer fans have been conditioned to "bend don't break".  Of course, when the "don't break" breaks down, it leads to playoff heartbreak.  Too many "break"s in this paragraph?  Give me a break.Bending, of course, doesn't help much in the way of field position.Like it or not, dance with the ones who brung you.  I wouldn't say this about the league in general, but in this case forget the yards and watch the points, though they do tend to be correlated.</blockquote>

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