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Originally Posted by
kernel 
If they can creep into the high teens I would be dancing in the streets. The game is offense, but man, I wouldn't object to them taking some of the stress out of watching.
I have an observation that last year was weird, in that previously good-to-solid defenses like NYG, NYJ, GB, NE, even Det to an extent all completely had the bottom fall out on them.
Which means I think there was SOMETHING going on aside from just Green Bay sucking (which they did, don't get me wrong) - to have a huge swath of the league go from solid or better to totally inept on defense may mean that those defenses regress to their previous means. The only problem with that is I have no idea why those teams would have gone to shit (aside from a vague "some effect of the lockout" theory), nor why they should go back from shit to Shine-ola.
A Packer-centric explanation was along the lines of "well, Dom Capers does well in his first few years but after that the opponents figure him out" - which is pretty fucking dumb when you think about it....Capers has been knocking around the league for 2 decades now, I think if he was figured out in Pitt or Carolina, he wouldn't have success ANYWHERE after they figured him out, since he doesn't exactly re-invent his defense at every stop - "Dammit, we had Capers figured out with Houston but we'll need at least 3 yrs to crack his scheme now that the players are wearing green jerseys and yellow helmets!"