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Personally, I don't mind the defense being humbled.
Thanks. Given the replies, I think people define "elite" in different ways. I do believe total yards is what is used to rate defenses. I see that we're now ranked 10th.
I didn't know a subjective term of "elite" was given such a strict empirical definition of "total yards". I think yards allowed isn't a good way to rate defenses...it punishes defenses that give up yards through the air when they are protecting a lead, and teams that simply get gouged on the ground actually look decent (like some of the previous Bear defenses). I think points allowed and turnovers created are much better indicators of strong defensive play. Bears are 4th in points and 1st in turnovers.
How about pts in the 3rd and 4th qtrs....Now that would be a good gauge on how good the defense is. Its not how you start but how you finish...they are struggling with finishing games.
I am assuming that points in the 3rd and 4th quarters would be covered in the Points Allowed category, but I'll check on that for you.
Since we know that total yards is the best measure of eliteness, how about total yards allowed in the 3rd and 4th quarters? That might be even more correlative.
Calm your tits people. Defense had a bad game. One game doesn't erase the previous performances. I'm taking it as an aberration until there is a trend established on more than one bad game.
Right now, no D in the league seems to be elite status to me.