Which Would You Rather Have?

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

Which would you rather have for the 08' season? An offense that is ranked among the best in the league with a drop off in defense, or for the defense to continue being solid with the offense maintaining the same output as '07? Choose one option and tell me why.

Philosophically, it's more important to have offense. Teams with great offense will find themselves in every game, and win the ability to win more games than a team with a great defense can.

With that said, the Redskins need better personnel on defense to sustain it, while their offense just simply needs more time to grow.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

I'd take a top 5 defense because, although teams with good defenses dominate the regular season, teams with bad defenses tend to get knocked out early in the playoffs.

[skinsguy]

It's kind of a toss up with me. An elite offense will get you at least 9 or 10 wins per year and will most like get you in the playoffs each year. However, a good defense is going to make some big plays to get you through the playoffs. Example....Giants' defense in this season's playoffs. However, I believe the edge does go to the offense in today's NFL. An elite offense will put up plenty of points, but will also be able to eat up the clock.

In the end, you need both an elite offense and at least a top 10 or 15 defense in order to get you to the Super Bowl and to win it all. Of course, watch the Giants blow that theory clean out of the water this Sunday!

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by QBall

I'd take a top 5 defense over top 5 offense anyday! Look at 06' when our defense was terrible we couldn't win a game or force a turnover at all. That really was a bad year for us.

How was '04 with our top 10 defense and #31 offense?

In '06, our offense was ranked in the 20's also. If you can't score, you don't win. It's quite simple really.

[GusFrerotte]

Drop in defense. My uncle is Earle Bruce the ex Ohio State football coach during the 80's. He always had very nice balanced powerful offenses with more of a bend no break type zone defense. They were top 5 usually in the Big Ten defensively yardage wise, but the team always had the best turnover ration in the Big Ten as the defense was rather adept at causing turnovers. My point is I rather have a high powered offense with an increase in yardage allowed, provided we can get our turnover ration more in the plus column.

[Schneed10]

I think you're better off with a shut-down D and a lousy O than the other way around. And I think it's far more likely to happen this year, too.

I don't think your team ends up very good in either scenario, so I'd rather take the one that's more enjoyable to watch. Just thinking back to 2006 when our defense was a seive, I could barely watch the team. I didn't even want our offense to score, I just wanted them to stay out on the field to keep our defense on the sidelines. But in 2004, when our D was dominant and our offense sucked, I had a great time watching each game.

Defensive games are exciting to me. Games that go 42-35 just feel like I'm watching Tecmo Super Bowl.

[GMScud]

I'll take the defense. Reason being, we lost every game except one by 8 points or less. We blew 5 halftime leads. Our offense was inches away from being an 11 or 12 win team. Our defense was fantastic most of the year. If we attack just a little bit more (like we did after JC went down), we're in good shape. Plus it's hard to think we'll have to deal with even half the serious injuries we did this year.

[htownskinfan]

Originally Posted by QBall

But what happens when that high octane offense meets a lock down defense?

Look at how the Raiders fell in Supebowl to Tampa. We need big D!

lets not forget about the skins loss to the raiders,highest scoring team ever up to the vikings who also lost to the falcons{cant remember how good the falcons def was} now the pats,highest scoring team ever,lets see how they do
Having said that,I'm all for the off,I'm sick of not scoring any points,its been years since we were good on off,probably sinnce Gibbs 1.0
Even if we were last in def so long as we were top 5 in off I would take it,at least the games would be exciting as hell and I'm used to seeing the games come down to the wire anyway

[htownskinfan]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

How was '04 with our top 10 defense and #31 offense?

In '06, our offense was ranked in the 20's also. If you can't score, you don't win. It's quite simple really.

I just noticed your sig,thats hilarious