QB or defense: what's the bigger problem?

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Which area is the biggest problem right now?

Brunell or the defense?

If you could fix one but not the other, which one would result in the greatest overall improvement?

defense is always a huge concern, good defense could jump start brunell, good qb might just delay the inevitable, giving up points. I feel like our D is unable to keep a lead, no matter how big it is.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but defense IS the bigger problem..."right now". Once Rogers gets back and we finally have both starting corners healthy again, we will see that defense we briefly saw against the Bengals.

defently defense, if you could stop other teams brunnel could win the game, or secure a lead he can't get in a touchdown frenzy he doesn't has it anymore.

defense "right now" but at full strength, it's clearly QB.

put out campbell, and if he's just as terrible, then at least we'll know. but maybe, just maybe, there'll be some promise there.

The defense is obviously a huge problem right now but I still voted for the QB. The offense can barely substain a drive, especially in the second half when the opposing team adjusts to the short passes. These short drives give our defense little time to rest and regroup and they give the other team a shorter field to work with.
For whatever reason, our screens and dumpoff passes worked well last year and the D was able to stay off the field for longer periods of time. This teams seem to know that we can't throw deep so they stack the box and they keep the dumpoffs behind the first down markers.
I still feel that if we had a QB who could stretch a defense for the entire game things would be different.

I'd say it's gotta be the D. We can't stop anyone right now. I'm still trying to figure out how Travis Henry nearly ran for a buck eighty on us.

If the D was their usual top 10 self, I think we could be at least 4-3 right now and right in the thick of things.

As it stands right now, even with a change at QB it's not going to matter much as long as we're giving up yardage by the mile. Even if we had someone like Peyton Manning, he would have to win every game in a shootout because right now the D can't be counted on at all.

The D is now ranked near the bottom of the league, it's sad to see really.

I say Brunell because, even when the defense was letting us down in games with the Titans and Colts, Brunell disappeared in the second half. he led us to nothing, even being outplayed in the fourth quarter by a rookie two weeks ago. Brunell is not doing his job of making plays that could win us games.

Of course, the defense is pitiful this year. Please relieve Gregg Williams of his job ASAP.

If the D was their usual top 10 self, I think we could be at least 4-3 right now and right in the thick of things.


I agree with you about that. I guess it's just another wasted offseason where the FO didn't address the important problems.

defense.

unlike the myriad problems with them, QB is one position we can actually DO something about, we just aren't.