and overall that's mostly true, but just 2 weeks ago, the difference between that game against Seattle and the game 2 years ago, was the offense scored TD's instead of FG's. That's not on the defense. And even yesterday, i'm not going to argue the defense looked good in the 4th quarter, because they didn't. They gave it up 10+ yards at a time. It was ridiculous. But could our offense get a ***** freaking 1st down? For as bad as our defense was, so was our offense the only difference being when you're really bad on offense you're off the field much more quickly. The same offense, with the same guys that was moving the ball at will for much of the game.
anyway, in our big losses over the years, everyone has played their part in one way or another. Doing things differently with different people, players, coaches, GM's assures nothing, other than the problems we faced would probably just be different. There'a a ton of room to be worse, not as much to go up relative to the rest of the league over the past decade.