[Quesadilla Joe]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

See, this is where you lose people. These big grandiose speculative predictions based outside of reality. Your defense has proven NOTHING. You were ranked in the 20's in both ypg and ppg last year. This defense has played 2 pre-season games. That's it. No matter how they looked, that means exactly jack and shit. Get out of here with this 2015 nonsense. If we get halfway through the season and they're on 2015 defense pace, then maybe you could reference that D. But until then, .

...

Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe

Half of our starting defense was out for most of the season.

Von Miller missed 16 games
Jurrell Casey missed 13 games
Mike Purcell missed 10 games
AJ Bouye missed 9 games
Bryce Callahan missed the last 5 1/2 games
Shelby Harris missed 5 games

For a good chunk of the season Michael Ojemudia and Devaunte Bausby (currently an unsigned FA) were our #1 and #2 corners and they were frequently on the field with at least one of the following corners: Parnell Motley, Nate Hairston, Alijah Holder, Duke Dawson, PJ Locke, Kevin Toliver and Devontae Harris.

The fact that Vic Fangio was able to have the #1 red zone defense in the league with all of that is a testament to his brilliance, and why teams are desperate to find someone from the Fangio tree to call their defense.