Our defense in the 1st half of games.

[JdashSTL]

For the most part, this has been a good trend this season. Our D has played very well in the 1st half of most games and then they are gassed in the 2nd half and things get ugly. So I decided to go back and look at all the opponents scoring in the 1st half of our games this season, and I didnt factor in special teams returns, fumble returns, int returns.

- Our defense has given up 146 pts over 14 games, so thats around a 10 pt average.

- The Saints game was the big turnaround for our D, they shutout the Saints in the 1st half.

- In the 6 games before that shutout our D had given up 106 points. Thats about an 18 pt average. 13 TDs, 5 FGs.

- The next 8 games our D gave up 40 pts. Thats a 5 pt average. In those 8 games, one TD allowed, 11 FGs.

Now I have checked and double checked this the best I could, if I got anything wrong please correct it.

 

[-X-]

Passes the eye test. Can speak for anyone else, but I don't need to double-check it. How there isn't any in-fighting after the extremely low production on offense is remarkable. If I'm on defense, I don't know how I react to this. Quality character guys goes a long way I suppose because nobody is pointing fingers. They just go out there and do their thing for as long as they can and hope the offense gets it on track. And the D has done a fair job at providing field position and turnovers too. Still nothing. It's a testament to someone - or something - that they keep on chopping wood anyway.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-- Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Memento]

We're doing quotes? Awesome! Let me find some:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

We must all hang together or most assuredly we will hang seperately.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

And for the grand finale:

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.

 

[steferfootball]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

I don't know if this is related, but it is a good quote.