Turnovers

[Black&Purple]

Is anyone else disappointed worse defenses are getting much more turnovers than us? And no I don't necessarily mean against us as an opponent. For being the #1 ranked defense our turnover ratio isn't very good...

[bkirha1]

yea, i've been scratching my head on that one...where are all of our takeaways...and also, what happened to the SACKS?

[bmorefan80]

We played against Peyton Manning, who is a future HoF QB. Peyton knows exactly what to do if the pressure is on him.

On the side note we did have a beat up secondary this game, which didn't help either.

[bkirha1]

Yea but im talking all year not just today...in 06' our +/- ratio was ridiculous. Now, i dont even know what it is but im sure its not good...

[Black&Purple]

I also meant this season, not just this game.

[z06tim]

Turn overs on defense are not my concern, its the ones on offense we all need to be worried about

[POE]

I have said it in another topic on this forum and I'll say it again..I think we are being just a little over aggressive on the D sidfe of the ball. I love this Defense just as much as anyone and love how aggressive they are but it seems like we are trying to force the issue a little bit. I feel that if we just go back to playing tough, physical football without the 70 blitzes a game we will frustrate the opposition enough that they will get impatient and start to force the ball some, leading to turnovers. Now I realize that we are a good blitzing team and need a lot of it to be effective but sometimes we just need to back off and let them bring it on. We have played great D up until this game and I am confident that we will see that D again here soon but I hope they have learned their lesson from this game and who knows maybe Peyton and Dungy just have our number right now.

[FerrariFan87]

If you turn the ball over, you lose. Period. The Redskins are a great example of this... the first 5 weeks they did not turn the ball over ONCE and were 4-1, then this past week they commit a flurry of them and get upset by a sorry Rams team who made fewer mistakes and capitalized on the ones the Redskins made.

[z06tim]

[quote name='FerrariFan87' post='75940' date='Oct 13 2008, 06:00 PM']If you turn the ball over, you lose. Period. The Redskins are a great example of this... the first 5 weeks they did not turn the ball over ONCE and were 4-1, then this past week they commit a flurry of them and get upset by a sorry Rams team who made fewer mistakes and capitalized on the ones the Redskins made.[/quote]

rofl @ redskins game - loosers

[TXRaven]

Have to fix the +/- on turnovers. It is proven teams that are plus win teams that are - lose and nothing will change that.

[Black&Purple]

[quote name='z06tim' post='75946' date='Oct 13 2008, 06:38 PM']rofl @ redskins game - loosers[/quote]

They are still 4-2....

[Ozzsome]

the turnovers on offense hve to stop cause like all of you said the team that turns the ball over more are lossers and we are definetly one of these teams

[neepo13]

We've got a rookie QB, a young offensive line, and inexperience at all but 1 or two positions on offense. Turnovers are going to happen. As the season goes on they should become less of a factor but with a offense as young as ours that cant field the same 11 games for 2 weeks in a row, they are going to be an issue. The reason the issue is magnified is because we turn it over in our own territory. We need our special teams unit to do a better job, with field position. Fix that and the defense can be more aggressive and create more turnovers. And the offense feels the pressure less and hopefully gives up less turnovers.

[Ozzsome]

[quote name='neepo13' post='76248' date='Oct 14 2008, 06:05 PM']We've got a rookie QB, a young offensive line, and inexperience at all but 1 or two positions on offense. Turnovers are going to happen. As the season goes on they should become less of a factor but with a offense as young as ours that cant field the same 11 games for 2 weeks in a row, they are going to be an issue. The reason the issue is magnified is because we turn it over in our own territory. We need our special teams unit to do a better job, with field position. Fix that and the defense can be more aggressive and create more turnovers. And the offense feels the pressure less and hopefully gives up less turnovers.[/quote]
hopefully the special teams can put the ball where we want it and if they do it the defense can force turnovers
i totally agree with you
GO DEFENSE