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For the same position. He has a history with Judge from New England.

Our defense was garbage but he didn't have a lot of healthy talent to work with, so I really have no opinion of it. I don't like losing both of our coordinators in one offseason and one of them so deep into the coaching shuffle but I guess we can't comment further until we know who his replacement will be. Maybe some fired head coach who is just a glorified coordinator will take the job and do great.

Hell, let's get Wade Phillips. Don't senior citizens go to Miami to retire? Shit, I'm not even joking the more I think about it. Go get Wade Phillips.

Quote from: CF DolFan on January 13, 2020, 02:28:45 pm

With how the defense was improving you'd think he would want to stay ... unless it was improving because Flores stepped in. Maybe we will find out sooner or later.

The defense wasn't really improving near the end of the season. It had improved quite a bit from the first 2 weeks which were total blowouts, but from weeks 3 through the end of the season it was pretty consistently bad having only a few games that were a little better but against typically weaker teams like the Redskins, Jets and Colts. The defense reached it's peak about week 9 when they only gave up 12 points to the Colts, but it was the Colts so you have to take that with a grain of salt. They were still giving up over a 1/2 point per play for most of the year even the last 3 games.

Here's the stats for the defense for the year. Other then the first 2 weeks which they were just blown out, they were pretty consistently bad, giving up an average of 28 points per game. That's not good and not really that far from the 24 they gave up to the Patriots, it's just that weeks 1 and 2 were so bad it made weeks 3 through 14 seem better by comparison.

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GM	TEAM	YDS	CMP	ATT	AVG	RSH	ATT	AVG	TOT	PLYS	PTS	AVG	PTS/GM
1	Ravens	378	23	26	14.5	265	46	5.8	643	69	59	0.9	59.0
2	Patriots	255	20	28	9.1	124	35	3.5	379	55	43	0.8	51.0
3	Cowboys	241	19	32	7.5	235	34	6.9	476	53	31	0.6	44.3
4	Chargers	311	25	31	10.0	79	33	2.4	390	58	30	0.5	40.8
5	Redskins	166	13	25	6.6	145	33	4.4	311	46	17	0.4	36.0
6	Bills	        188	16	26	7.2	117	23	5.1	305	39	31	0.8	35.2
7	Steelers	236	20	36	6.6	158	29	5.4	394	49	27	0.6	34.0
8	Jets	        238	27	39	6.1	83	21	4.0	321	48	18	0.4	32.0
9	Colts	        191	18	39	4.9	109	29	3.8	300	47	12	0.3	29.8
10	Bills	        256	21	33	7.8	168	34	4.9	424	55	37	0.7	30.5
11	Browns	320	24	34	9.4	147	32	4.6	467	56	41	0.7	31.5
12	Eagles	294	28	46	6.4	92	19	4.8	386	47	31	0.7	31.4
13	Jets	        262	20	36	7.3	112	32	3.5	374	52	22	0.4	30.7
14	Giants	274	21	29	9.4	138	33	4.2	412	54	36	0.7	31.1
15	Bengals	371	33	56	6.6	59	25	2.4	430	58	35	0.6	31.3
16	Patriots	217	16	29	7.5	135	27	5.0	352	43	24	0.6	30.9
TOT		        4198	344	545	7.7	2166	485	4.5	6364	829	494	0.6	30.9

What was improving was the offense under Fitzpatrick. He played some of the best football he's ever played in the last half of the season which is the reason for the better record in the 2nd half of the season. Don't forget that Fitzpatrick did not play well the first couple of weeks which is why he was benched in favor of Rosen who did even worse and Fitzpatrick was put back in. By the end of the year the offense was doing well enough to keep us in games, but the defense really wasn't looking that much better then it looked in weeks 3 and 4.

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