[BostonCard]

Thanks for your well considered response.  My takeaway is that, on the whole, we agree much more than we disagree, and wanted to highlight two areas of vehement agreement.

1) its multi factorial.  There’s a tendency among fans (and I fall victim to it myself) of thinking that things would be better if we could just fix this one little thing. On this board, it is often ascribed to the offensive playcalling, which would actually be pretty far down on my list of priorities to fix.  When there is that big a gap between performance in 2015 (arguably our apex) and 2021 (hopefully our bottom, but I may be optimistic), it isn’t one thing that went to crap.

2) the defensive decline has been more colossal than our offensive struggles (which, are a contributor, see above).  Again, this board like to ascribe issues to offense, even though it is our defense which, per your analysis, has gone from elite (top 10) to gawd awful (90’s or worse).  I think it might be a bit fanciful to hope for a top-20 caliber defense again, but if we can at least get it back to respectability, that would go a long way to regaining a sustainable program.

3) the retention problem that I discussed earlier.

Thanks for your thoughts.

BC

[BostonCard]

Thanks for your well considered response.  My takeaway is that, on the whole, we agree much more than we disagree, and wanted to highlight two areas of vehement agreement.

1) its multi factorial.  There’s a tendency among fans (and I fall victim to it myself) of thinking that things would be better if we could just fix this one little thing. On this board, it is often ascribed to the offensive playcalling, which would actually be pretty far down on my list of priorities to fix.  When there is that big a gap between performance in 2015 (arguably our apex) and 2021 (hopefully our bottom, but I may be optimistic), it isn’t one thing that went to crap.

2) the defensive decline has been more colossal than our offensive struggles (which, are a contributor, see above).  Again, this board like to ascribe issues to offense, even though it is our defense which, per your analysis, has gone from elite (top 10) to gawd awful (90’s or worse).  I think it might be a bit fanciful to hope for a top-20 caliber defense again, but if we can at least get it back to respectability, that would go a long way to regaining a sustainable program.

3) the retention problem that I discussed earlier.

Thanks for your thoughts.

BC