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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 780687">Here's one way to look at a 31st. ranked passer-rating-against of 102.0 last season:I think we can all agree an 80.0 number is pretty darn good.  Maybe, just maybe, the talent deficit takes you from 80 to a 23rd. ranked 92 while Capers coaching bumped it up to 102.0, making the opposition Hall of Fame caliber in the aggregate.   One might walk through that pretty crappy 95.9 from the prior season in a similar way.The point being, there's no reason to believe there was a single cause which is true at the outset of any problem solving exercise.Packer management evidently believed there might be multiple causes since both key figures got bounced.  That's unless one wants to believe they just couldn't figure it out and went with "fire everybody".Whether the defense shows marked improvment or continues to wallow, there are a suffient number of new defensive faces getting enough snaps that a definitive apportionment of retrospective blame is not going to be definitive at the conclusion of this season.  The closest we'll get is in seeing whether incumbent players who underperformed in the past make a step up under the new regime.</blockquote>

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