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Originally Posted by RunKC
I’ve been pleased with the defense. They’ve absolutely been good enough. And that’s saying something for a young ass defense.
They did more than their fair share to win the Bills game. Same with the Colts loss. The offense lost those games.
They struggled against Herbert and Burrow. Shocker! They got scored on by elite QB’s. Wow. Hey remember when we scored 40+ on an elite Niners defense?
Even in the Bengals game the defense gave the offense every opportunity to win and they literally fumbled it away.
All 3 of our losses came because the offense couldn’t close out the game.
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This idea that we can't expect a better defensive effort than what we saw in Cincinnati is ridiculous. Plenty of defenses have done much better against them, including the week before and the week after. It's okay to say that it wasn't good. That doesn't mean that the defense sucks. Just means they did a poor job that day. People keep pointing out that they "only" scored 27. Yeah....on 7 possessions. That's 3.85 points per drive. That's higher than the MFing 07 Patriots. Let's say they had as many possessions as the Broncos had on Sunday. They'd have scored 50 at that rate. Even with the drop on a wide open TD and the failed 4th down conversion near the goal line. And the penalty that led to their only punt of the day. Incredible that people are sugarcoating that turd of a performance.