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Canales needs to divorce Evero at the end of the year

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10 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

The same defense that kept us competitive the past several weeks and now we are crapping all over it.  How about an offense that put up only 14 points of which 7 of them came on busted play that allowed Coker to run straight down field uncovered? 

This is such a weird take. The defense has been trash all year.... Why are you so quick to run to the defense of a unit that has allowed more points than any other team in the the league?

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This is such a weird take. The defense has been trash all year.... Why are you so quick to run to the defense of a unit that has allowed more points than any other team in the the league?

Hmmm, the games the defense played the best are the games Bryce won. Point being, our defense isn't great, but our QB can't compensate for it.  Manufacturing more than 3 TDs is too big of an ask apparently. 

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Hmmm, the games the defense played the best are the games Bryce won. Point being, our defense isn't great, but our QB can't compensate for it.  Manufacturing more than 3 TDs is too big of an ask apparently. 

I'd settle for the defense being below average. They are the worst in the NFL. The offense certainly hasn't been good but the defense has been flirting with historically bad.

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4 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Hmmm, the games the defense played the best are the games Bryce won. Point being, our defense isn't great, but our QB can't compensate for it.  Manufacturing more than 3 TDs is too big of an ask apparently. 

“Defense played their best”

yet those teams all scored more points against us than 85% teams they’ve played this year.

got it.

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I'd settle for the defense being below average. They are the worst in the NFL. The offense certainly hasn't been good but the defense has been flirting with historically bad.

Until today they had been improving over the first half of the season.  I'm not arguing the defense isn't bad, what I am saying is the games that we have been in lately the defense has kept the point total manageable to where the offense didn't have to be spectacular to keep us in games.

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Until today they had been improving over the first half of the season.  I'm not arguing the defense isn't bad, what I am saying is the games that we have been in lately the defense has kept the point total manageable to where the offense didn't have to be spectacular to keep us in games.

It would been hard to get worse than historically bad lol. So what you're saying is if the defense plays bad rather than historically bad we have a chance. Understood.

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6 minutes ago, ncfan said:

“Defense played their best”

yet those teams all scored more points against us than 85% teams they’ve played this year.

got it.

Bryce can't put up the points to cover the 30+ point output that teams were laying on us earlier in the year.  So the defense did improve, scoring wise, to aid in a 20 and 23 point output to beat the Giants and Saints respectively.  

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It would been hard to get worse than historically bad lol. So what you're saying is if the defense plays bad rather than historically bad we have a chance. Understood.

Exactly, the defense play has to coincide with Bryce having a career day.  Winning formula going forward, right?

Big picture, just improving the defense ain't fixing sh*t unless the offense gets fixed too.  Not unless we get like an '85 Bears defense where the offense can be an afterthought.

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