Stout
Hold onto the ball, Murray!
Okay, so I started Hightower instead of McFadden in my fantasy league last week. It didn't work out, but I thought my logic was sound. I was wrong for the very reason that this thread's title posits. Why am I telling you all this? Well, here goes.
Over the past two seasons, we have been on the receiving end of some beat downs, some real big losses. What is it that we've come to count on after our defense gets spanked and we lose big? They come back the next week to have a monster game and go crazy on our opponent's offense (at least early on, before our coach takes his foot off the gas).
So, against the raiders, our defense is going to come out with an attitude, right? Bzzz, wrong-o. We didn't have any stuffing-the-RB-on-every-play type of performance, as we have in the past after a big loss. We didn't have mad pressure on the QB. We had the same bland, passionless defense we've had all year. In fact, we haven't seen that same defense at all this season.
What can the reason be? We had two major defensive losses--Rolle and Dansby. Outside of the fact that you'll never convince me Rolle was an emotional leader on the defense, his position has been more than adequately filled.
Where does that leave us? Missing Dansby like a starving man misses food.
Over the past two seasons, we have been on the receiving end of some beat downs, some real big losses. What is it that we've come to count on after our defense gets spanked and we lose big? They come back the next week to have a monster game and go crazy on our opponent's offense (at least early on, before our coach takes his foot off the gas).
So, against the raiders, our defense is going to come out with an attitude, right? Bzzz, wrong-o. We didn't have any stuffing-the-RB-on-every-play type of performance, as we have in the past after a big loss. We didn't have mad pressure on the QB. We had the same bland, passionless defense we've had all year. In fact, we haven't seen that same defense at all this season.
What can the reason be? We had two major defensive losses--Rolle and Dansby. Outside of the fact that you'll never convince me Rolle was an emotional leader on the defense, his position has been more than adequately filled.
Where does that leave us? Missing Dansby like a starving man misses food.