Blown out wk 7 at Baltimore. Pretty shoddy win against a terrible Vegas team on MNF wk 8. Then the bye. Barely squeaked by the Chargers where the D was total garbage in wk 10. Barely squeaked by awful Chicago in the same fashion in wk 11. Then today, another garbage showing from both Goff and the defense, when the team should have been pumped up to win at home against their nemesis on Thanksgiving before a national audience for the first time since 2016. They just aren’t as good as we all had hoped. The Minnesota games are going to be huge. They will probably make the playoffs, but will lose against Dallas, Philly, or SF.
The run defense was so anomalously good at the start of the season that it helped compensate for the pass defense, but it was always bound to regress.
The pass rush is harder to figure out because it’s not clear if they were overperforming to start the season or if they’re underperforming now.