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If Shirreffs goes 16-19 180 we'd hear "the D must suck or we're in trouble ".
C'mon man, people might be overreacting, but you can't say that someone shouldn't be worried about a QB (who was dominated by the defense) b/c if the same QB had dominated the defense then they would complain about that. There is a lot of middle ground between 44% (16/36) and 84% (16/19) completion rate. I think people would feel a lot better one of Rosier and Sheriffs went something like 20/36 or 16/30. Not world beating numbers, but reasonable going up against a good defense.
The thing that worries me is not just the completion percentage, but the completion percentage and yardage; Sheriffs only completed 44% of his passes AND only averaged 8.7 yards a completion, so a lot of those passes were probably dump offs to the RB. Combine that with it being non contact and I can see why some people are concerned even though it is expected for the defense to be ahead at this point and we are expecting the defense to be one of the top Ds in the country.