Balance: Is It All It's Cracked Up To Be?

I was wondering the same..if our defense can get better at getting stops on 3rd and long it could go a long way to help out the D as well as give Cam and company more chances to score. Countless times we had teams in 3rd and 10+ only to give up the big play. I agree guys off IR will help. Honestly in the top 10 I feel we got to get a impact player. Rather on the line, Offensive or Defensive. or Play maker rather at WR or CB we got to get somebody who can help us out the gate be a better team.

is of course that defense wins Championships. Look no further back than the Giants’ win over the Pats in Superbowl XLII. No one could stop Josh McDaniels’ spread offense attack because Brady got the ball out so quickly and had so many weapons. The Giants knew the only chance they had to win was to disrupt Brady’s rhythm by planting his butt in the turf or at least given him a few bruises. They couldn’t keep up with them with just offense even though they were almost as prolific at scoring.

So to say that balance isn’t the formula, perhaps that’s true today, but in my opinion, if you can’t disrupt Brees, Brady, Rogers, Big Ben, Peyton, Eli, etc, you’re not going to beat them no matter how many points you score. All that said, though, I do like the idea of going WR in the 1st, OT in the 2nd or vice-versa. Our defense has grown over the season and lots of guys have gotten their feet wet. We just need to put together the best, deepest unit we can for next season. Hopefully Brandon Hogan comes to training camp ready to handle the #2 CB position.

we need to build our team to be able to stop the saints. if we cant beat the saints in the regular season, its harder to get in the playoffs, or worse if we go into the playoffs and we still cannot keep up. we must either build to slow down brees or build an offense that can score more points.

we build to beat brees

I think you can get away with having one of the three phases being poor, as long as the other two are solid. It would explain why the “high powered offense, weak defense” formula didn’t work for the Panthers, because the ST play was also less than perfect good.

by a lagging defense that suddenly looked potent. Julip Jones was supposedly adding the final piece to an offense that already had plenty of weapons. He played well but what happened?
Seemed to me the Falcons o-line when kaput or they were just over-rated

Points are what dictates who has a job when the dust settles. Yards are what we look at, but points are what matters.

To actually address the article, I’ve kind of had this pit in my stomach the last few weeks. My fear is the powers that be will, generally speaking, just kind of glaze over our problems defensively while using the “Beason is coming back” excuse to make our defensive deficiencies (in terms of personnel) sound like less than they are.

While I’d agree that we are a piece or two away from having an offense like GB or NO, Cam is not yet Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers. He is going to need a defense to help him out for a few more seasons as he masters his craft.

Look what an average defense does for Denver and John Fox, who, by the way, is getting zero credit for the job he has done with that team this season.

Whoa! This is wierd, I was going to make a post pretty much just like this! I was basically thinking that after watching some of these playoff games that maybe a good defense in today’s NFL is overrated Aslong as you have the explosive offense to compensate for it. Maybe we should just stack the deck even more on our offense with more weapons so we can look more like the Pats and Packers and have a unstoppable offense.

My point is, in today’s NFL do you really need a top tier defense? Or can you just get by on a average defense? I mean when you see the Patriots and Packers play, they are constantly passing and scoring at will with multiple weapons.

That’s why, I’m actually more open to us drafting a WR in the 1st round perhaps, adding even more arsenal to our offense to make us unstoppable.

Another reason why I think we load up more on offense is I have a feeling Chudzinski has a lot of power behind the scenes, especially if he stays which is likely, he might be even more demanding that we get more weapons to open up his offense.

Honestly, if our offense can get to the point like Packers, Patriots wtc where we can score at will game in and game out, then I won’t mind us being like that.

That being said, I expect the Niners to make it a game against the Saints. Now, moving on to Carolina. The offense did everything itcould to stay in each game this year…minus the Tennessee game. Sure, there were mistakes made on both sides of the ball attributing to the ten losses suffered this year but the defense couldn’t do enough to keep the Panthers in the game. Also, let’s not forget the adventure that was special teams this year. Mare was not doing us any favors and Baker seemed to regress a lot this year. The solution is simple. Carolina uses its first two picks to address their biggest needs (IMO CB and OT) then start shoring up the depth chart. The last thing they need is a revolving door of injuries and inadequate backups filling in for key players. I was impressed by the interior defensive line players though. When the rookies went down these guys came out of obscurity and played well enough that I feel they should be competing for a starting spot in training camp.

The main issue here is are unbalance is on the wrong side and our turnoverso are on the minus side. Nearly every year the team that wins it has either a good stiffling defense or can force turnovers at the right time. I know that those stats suggest it doesnt matter with those three teams you have listed having had great regular seasons this year but heck the Pats have a great regular season every year but havent won a playoff game in three or so. Every team needs its defense to step up late in the year the colts d did in the playoffs the year they won it the saints d did the year they won it and there defense has been playing great in the second halves of games the last few weeks. Anyone who things we can ever consitently win without improving on to’s and defense is wrong

NO, NE, SF would all be even better if they had a top 15 defense. I think the idea is to have balance, but make sure you don’t neglect offense while building your defense.

Car has a top 5 offense already. I can’t say improving that a couple spots would make us better than creating a top 15 defense.

We’ll see how this year turns out… But it could very well be an anamoly.

Sometimes it’s not the regular season rakings, but how you play gOing into and during the playoffs.

I dont think we go by the lions d it has a great d line just nothing really behind it save one good safety

Make out offense significantly better? Or make our defense significantly better?

The latter is obtainable in a number of ways, I’m not sure the first is. Does adding Blackmon make us that much better next year? This is why we should focus on defense. We can make big strides there.

Look at Rivera’s track record in San Diego. They had the number one defense last year and the only three people I can name off the top of my head from that defense are Weddle, Jammer, and Garay. I think BAMF can make us respectable with what we have, even if we don’t pick up any huge game-changing pieces. Last year San Diego had the #1 defense (#1 against the pass, #4 against the run). This year they are 16th on defense (13th against the pass, 20th against the run) and they just fired Rivera’s replacement at Defensive Coordinator. We should have faith in Rivera to fix this defense, even if we don’t add upgrades at every position.

That’s why getting another stud to develop with or protect Cam is not a bad idea. We just need to go BPA.