I think this is interesting but it would be more useful to see it aggregated across multiple years because injuries/contract configurations/weird performance blips can obscure the real trend.
Absolutely true.
Also is this cash or salary cap? We’ve had like 30M of our defensive cap not on the field due to dead cap or players mostly injured.
This is why Joe Barry should still be fired imo.
Our defense isn’t hot garbage but it’s atrocious how much it underperforms when you consider all the high draft picks and money being spent on it. Sometimes we make good plays but when you can literally see guys lining up too far back on 3rd down or when you see Preston Smith lined up on Davante then you know something is horribly wrong.
Our offense is so bad that our defense keeps looking “good” by comparison but it still absolutely is underperforming