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Originally posted by Meni@Oct 10 2003, 08:30 AM
Colin, we put in mass subs in every game
you deal with statistics
statistics lie
put on your tv
and watch the D Saturday
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These are hardly statistics meant to confuse matters. It's just a list of points given up in games. ;-)
There's a problem with what you're saying. Your claiming that something is "the best" at something while ignoring all the competition. "The best" by definition means better than all other competitors. And how many of the great defenses of the past few decades can you name that you "watched on tv" and why are they all not as good as OK in your opinion?
How do you think a team that only gave up 20 points once and shutout the #1 offense in the nation looked on TV? Fortunately I remember. Needless to say a team that only surrendered 20 points once in an entire season is going to look pretty amazing.
Any team blowing out their opponents has lots of subs. That's not just in OK. ;-)
I'd like to point to a team other than my own favorite though because I know what bias can do - which evidently has you in its grip. ;-) Unfortunately, I don't know a team that performed better defensively than the '91 Canes from the past 2 decades. Maybe there is one. Assuming that players get bigger, better, and faster and that defensive strategy improves there should be a cut-off point going back. Maybe a fair benchmark is to look at teams recent enough that there is still NFL talent that was playing in those years. Otherwise someone could go back and look at Yale in 1888, a team that didn't give up a single point for an entire year. Oh, Walter Camp.
You've watched enough TV over the years to judge a team as "best defense ever" and are willing to do it based on 5 games played against teams with average offenses? Texas is one of the top offenses in the country. I'd say shutting them out would be equivalent to the '91 Miami defense's accomplishment against the #1 offense at the time, Nebraska. You don't need statistics to know that holding the #1 offense in the nation to 0 points is a sign of greatness.
I'll give you another team I think has a better D. 1987 Oklahoma.
Last edited by Colin at Oct 10 2003, 09:09 AM