Talib missed the entire 4th quarter and part of the 3rd. Arrington isn't an outside corner and everyone knows that. Saying he's a 3 year starter is BS.
It's not BS at all. He's a better nickel corner than an outside corner, but he's still a three year starter. The pass defense has shown better with that line-up on the field in the past this year and got applauded for it. They didn't show up last night.
The Pass rush was actually pretty good, for the most part. You are like so many other people who don't understand that SACKS aren't what determine a good pass rush. There were numerous times Newton had to throw the ball on the run because of the pressure he felt
By my count, Newton fled the pocket three times because of pressure last night. That's not enough to warrant a pass rush as being "pretty good, for the most part". On top of that, you don't want a quarterback like Newton fleeing the pocket. You want to force him to stay there and take him off his first read. That alone just highlights another failure of the defense, which I noted with the Hightower missed assignment.
No. They perfectly relevant because those are examples of truly awful defenses. But I'm not surprised that you have to live up to your name and be contrary for the sake of being contrary.
The defense in 1991 is completely irrelevant to the defenses play last night. It's a red herring, which you seem to toss out very often.
Why is the defense so "night and day" from the beginning of the year. Because they were missing 5 starters to begin with.
Understand, but all you're doing is excusing bad defense. You haven't come up with one viable reason for why the defense played well last night. You've just made excuses and tossed out logical fallacies which is usually why our debates end in you trying to personally insult me. Good teams advance to the Super Bowl in spite of injuries because the depth is good enough to get it done. That doesn't appear to be the case for the Patriots right now. And, even when they carried three regular starters in the defensive backfield to begin the game, they were still struggling.
Of course you didn't see it. You constantly ignore things that you don't want to believe. Sorry that you think that guys like Wharton and Bell should be allowed to tackled to the ground our D-linemen and you think it's "routine".
Instead of going for the ad hominem, post a pic, GIF image, video off YouTube of your recording, or a media member breaking down the All-22 talking about this. Like I said, if it was happening all game, it shouldn't be that hard to find. Otherwise some of us might think that you're making that up in order to excuse an otherwise non-existant pass rush.
Do yourself a favor, Kontra, stop living up to your name. You'd be a much better poster for it.
I challenge you to point out where I've contradicted myself.
