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<blockquote data-quote="paulska" data-source="post: 579921" data-attributes="member: 557"><p>I think what it proves is that for four of the past five seasons, our defense has been STARTLINGLY bad against quarterbacks who excel when it matters most and have the bulk of the most important hardware to show for it during that time.</p><p></p><p>Stafford, Ryan, Romo and Cutler are regular season stat wonders who can't get their teams to the playoffs and elevate them while they're there. Flacco was a question mark, including the season when he lit up the playoffs after a meh regular season. He's pulled an Eli since and gone back to being a see saw.</p><p></p><p>I'd say these numbers are a big enough sample size to assert that the years elite QB's killed us is indeed a symptom that our D was bad, and it holds up over time, because we only have one year where that isn't true, and that's the year we won a title.</p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but we haven't stopped anyone consistently other than the year we won the whole shooting match, and it remains a problem. We can either stop the run but not the pass (wasn't that the year we surrended the second most passing yards ever in a season?), or like this year, we can be effective versus the pass but are trash against the run. Whatever our wrinkles are, they only befuddle middling talents, and yes, I put Cutler and his superlative physical abilities in that group because he's got a ten dollar brain on top of a billion dollar arm. We don't make great quarterbacks plain, and if you're going to win titles, that's what it takes (case in point the Seahawks last season vs. one of the greatest single seasons by a QB ever in Peyton).</p><p></p><p>It's not that we don't have some amazing ingredients. We just don't put it together the way some other teams do. Dom hasn't shown the ingenuity and flexibility that Todd Bowles has in Arizona this season. That's a fact, and it's sad because I don't know how many defensive minds out there know the game better than Dom. He just seems to lose his sparkle within two-three years. He's no **** Lebeau on that front...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paulska, post: 579921, member: 557"] I think what it proves is that for four of the past five seasons, our defense has been STARTLINGLY bad against quarterbacks who excel when it matters most and have the bulk of the most important hardware to show for it during that time. Stafford, Ryan, Romo and Cutler are regular season stat wonders who can't get their teams to the playoffs and elevate them while they're there. Flacco was a question mark, including the season when he lit up the playoffs after a meh regular season. He's pulled an Eli since and gone back to being a see saw. I'd say these numbers are a big enough sample size to assert that the years elite QB's killed us is indeed a symptom that our D was bad, and it holds up over time, because we only have one year where that isn't true, and that's the year we won a title. I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but we haven't stopped anyone consistently other than the year we won the whole shooting match, and it remains a problem. We can either stop the run but not the pass (wasn't that the year we surrended the second most passing yards ever in a season?), or like this year, we can be effective versus the pass but are trash against the run. Whatever our wrinkles are, they only befuddle middling talents, and yes, I put Cutler and his superlative physical abilities in that group because he's got a ten dollar brain on top of a billion dollar arm. We don't make great quarterbacks plain, and if you're going to win titles, that's what it takes (case in point the Seahawks last season vs. one of the greatest single seasons by a QB ever in Peyton). It's not that we don't have some amazing ingredients. We just don't put it together the way some other teams do. Dom hasn't shown the ingenuity and flexibility that Todd Bowles has in Arizona this season. That's a fact, and it's sad because I don't know how many defensive minds out there know the game better than Dom. He just seems to lose his sparkle within two-three years. He's no **** Lebeau on that front... [/QUOTE]
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