Defense next Year

[SKINSnCANES]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

The Redskins' injury list on defense was not nearly as bad as lots of other teams - - including ones in the Super Bowl. Arrington missed games. Other than that, the defense was not missing key players.

The Redskins' defense this year was a statistical wonder but not a winner. They produced one TD for the year I believe and they gave up end-of-game drives to cost the team wins in two games against bad teams (Cleveland and Dallas).

It would be far bettr for the Skins' defense to rank 10th in yardage and much higher in points scored and "points produced from great field position" than in yards gained. They don't pay off for yardage stats.

Lavar, bowen, daniels, barrow....thats four starters out of 11, id say thats a pretty big hit to take considering most of them were out the whole season. People stepped up, but our starters were out. And didnt whoever took bowens place go out to and we used a third person at that position? If you took last years bucs and took their people at those same positions, lynch, rice, brooks and shedon quarrels(sp) that is a huge hit. Granted, those players are considered better than we lost, but still, you lose that many guys for the whoel year its tought to replace them, we got lucky that people stepped up big this year.

I think you are thinking we didnt have too many injuries, becuase since most of them didnt play much at all, you dont consider them starters, but they definitly were.