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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 652811" data-attributes="member: 7261">While I agree TO differential is an important stat. and a team always strives to be on the plus side of it,  IMO if you only look at it alone, you don't see the big picture. All you see is +/- stat. that combines both the offense and defenses abilities in this area.   The Packers are a classic example of that this year.  We all know Rodgers doesn't throw a lot of picks and for the most part, our offense was average on securing the ball and not fumbling, which is why we were tied for 4th best in the league at not turning the ball over.  So this inflates our differential and the casual observer will say "Hey we were really pretty good in the turnover department this year".  But were we?  Not on forcing them, that's on the defense.I view this as almost the same as looking at scoring differential.  You can have a really high powered offense and if at the end of the year you say, "Hey our point differential was tops in the league", does this matter if your defense sucks? So while our offense continues to do very well in hanging on to the ball, I think our defense could use some improvement on taking it away.</blockquote>

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