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Atl Falcons elite defense?


heelinfine

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They played well against Minnesota and Atlanta. The Minnesota game was an epic special teams meltdown or it could've been much closer

I'll go one further and say the last bad game the defense played was home versus NO. Other than lack of turnovers and sacks, the defense has been pretty strong. And now the starting lineup has finally been solidified, it's definitely a top 10 defense again.
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We simply played Tampa, Clev and NO....

That makes whatever you are....to appear to be something better

 

 

I agree that we are not elite although we have gotten better.  But the other teams play bad teams as well. Seattle has the number one defense this year and they are very good and probably deserve to be called an elite defense.  But they did get the advantage of playing Arizona twice after Palmer went out.  And they got to play Oakland.  And they got to play us when our offense could barely manage to score against bad teams.    At this point in the season, it pretty much averages out.   

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Funny that I think our defense crept into the top 10. Theirs, well I guess they shut down Eazy Breezy and think they are good all of a sudden.

Our D is 10th overall, which means squat to me. We're still in the 20's in scoring D and that's really all that matters. I believe we're actually one spot behind Atlanta in that regard.

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Our D is 10th overall, which means squat to me. We're still in the 20's in scoring D and that's really all that matters. I believe we're actually one spot behind Atlanta in that regard.

Considering ST flops and points the offense has given away, the total points don't really tell the whole story now do they?
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Our Pass defense has gotten significantly better the last few games.  Our run defense still isn't very good, although its better than it was in the first 8 games or so.  Our defense is still better than their's. 

 

They have two advantages over us, passing attack and special teams.  We will find out if that is enough. 

 

Run defense has been solid /most/ of the time, the problem is you always feel they have one big breakdown in them that'll go 70/80 yards and usually it happens at some point

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I can link at least 45 points just in the Philly and Minn games that the offense or ST gave to our opponents and easily over 100 points off the season.

 

That is the big reason most of us are surprised that our total defense is top ten. Offense and ST have given away too many games. MINN comes into mind where we had to start throwing cos ST got us in a hole. Game against SEA was winnable save another offensive fumble.

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