Originally posted by 9ers4eva:
Originally posted by Furlow:
So you have no answer, other than the same nonsense about "the defenders had nothing to do with it." What specifically did they "have to do with it?" Did a starter or starters change? Did the defensive play calls change? Did someone come back from injury? Or you are referring to the obvious facts (that I already qualified even though it's not necessary) that the defensive players actually physically lined up and played the plays?
The Raiders is a different story, because it will be a different season. If they have different starters, a different DC, etc - then there will be other variables to discuss and assign credit or blame if the defense improves or gets worse. For the 2017 Niners, I'm still waiting to hear what those changes in variables were.
Well let's take the Jags game for example. Believe the 9ers forced 3 turnovers in the game from memory. Are you suggesting those happened strictly because the defense was rested more than previously? Only variable it could possibly be?
But interesting you are now walking back the Raider stuff. Glad that you realize the other changes they make will actually matter.
Always looking for singular outliers to argue against a larger data set. Bro just stop.
Edit: I was at the Jags game in 2017. It was cold and windy. That was definitely the reason for the 3 turnovers. Had nothing to with Jimmy or the defense. It was just luck. Am I doing this right?
And I'm not walking back anything. We don't know what the Raiders are going to do on defense. But it's highly unusual for a team to have the exact same starters on either side of the ball, so logically there will be at least some room for discussion of other variables.
Speaking of variables, still waiting for which variables you feel changed in 2017 for the defense to improve after Jimmy became the starter.
[ Edited by Furlow on Mar 16, 2023 at 4:18 PM ]