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Why do you think defense wins championships?

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in theory it's a 50/50 split, you have offense and then you have defense

to a non football or sports fan in general they would think you're superstitious if you just busted that out on them

so what separates the two? Has anyone really thought about this?
 
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A good defense controls the tempo of the game. They make the offense play to their style. Defense also creates turnovers and its evident that the team who creates the most turnovers wins the majority of their games. Turnovers shift the momentum of the game in a big way and effects both sides of the ball.

It's simple really, the team who scores the most points wins. The team with the better defense allows less points than the other team, resulting in a win.
 
really its all about 2 things. a great d can usually force some 3 and outs keeping the d fresh longer. and 2 a great d gets stops when needed and can change feild position putting offense in better spot to score.

getting stops on third down because u put the other team in third and long is huge. great defenses put teams in third at long alot and the pct of making a third and long vs a third a short is a big diffrence. being able to get stops and force other team to punt is a must have.

its why teams like baylor lose games they shouldn't they can score all day but if they have to punt there d can't always get a stop when needed. bama wins more because even if the offense is avg. they get stops , they put ball back in offenses hands and are able to flip feild position.
 
The two teams that were playing in the national title game were probably the two best defenses in the nation (outside of UF).
 
orange&green84 said:
The two teams that were playing in the national title game were probably the two best defenses in the nation (outside of UF).
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You did not just infer UF as one of the top defenses last year LOL

Top 5 defenses in FBS last year was
1. Boston College
2. Michigan
3. Alabama
4. Clemson
5. San Diego State
 
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Defense wins when you have an offense that gives the defense adequate rest.The game today in cfb is about having the right tempo that allows the defense to be effective.
 
Gotta be able to score. Offenses in college prove that a defense heavy team with no offense cannot win titles. If Bama was a one dimensional team they could not have beaten Clemson.
 
Just look at the 2016 Super Bowl Champions Denver Broncos

A so so offense with best defense in the NFL.
 
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paksat said:
in theory it's a 50/50 split, you have offense and then you have defense

to a non football or sports fan in general they would think you're superstitious if you just busted that out on them

so what separates the two? Has anyone really thought about this?
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you want proof defense wins championships, go look at Alabama's defensive rankings every time they won the NC
 
To be great on d it takes consistency... Usually its no fluke. And is usually an indicator being able to impose your will

Offense is based on timing and lots of other variables and its success can be subjective.
 
Old mantra that always stuck around. It's true but you also need a capable offense as well
 
paksat said:
in theory it's a 50/50 split, you have offense and then you have defense

to a non football or sports fan in general they would think you're superstitious if you just busted that out on them

so what separates the two? Has anyone really thought about this?
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Because history says so.
 
A defense that is good is usually always good. They tend to be much more consistent than a good offense which needs to have nearly every player at every position doing his job to the optimum for the O to click.

A good O usually means a stud QB. If he has a bad day or gets hurt that's it for the O. Same for the OL which has to play as a 5 man team-one guy gets hurt or messes up and they don't click. If you have a stud WR or RB and he gets taken out of the game-again your O wont work.

The D is not as vulnerable .They usually have several elite players that make them the # 1 unit so an injury will hurt them but not quite as much as it would the O.
 
you have a much greater margin of error on defense than you do on offense. on a very good defense, even if a d-lineman gets pancaked he'll have speedy linebackers/safeties to help clean up his mess, or if a corner gets badly beaten he'll have an all-american safety back there playing rover. and even if the entire defense gets fooled, they'll have the team speed to recover and keep a big play from going 70+ yards to the house.

on offense, all it takes is 1 guy to whiff on a block to give up a sack, or 1 receiver to drop a perfectly thrown ball, or a lineman to move before the ball is snapped etc
 
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Historical evidence supports the theorem that defense wins championships. Name a Super Bowl champion with a poor defense. Even in this era of rules supporting the passing game their aren't any.

This does not mean the team with the "best statistical defense" always win. The best teams have balance in that their offense and defense support one another. Championship teams with great defenses are almost always supported by an offense that controls the ball and scores enough points so the defense can play rested and defend a lead. These same great defenses create turnovers and opportunities for their offense to score on shorter drives.

I doubt you can find a championship team with a great defense and a really bad offense. Perhaps the Ravens in 2000, but they would be a definite outlier. I cannot recall an opposite case where a SB champion went through its season winning high-scoring games. Those teams are exposed in the playoffs when their opponents play good-to-great defense and they may have to play in inclement weather.
 
DMoney's been ringing this bell for some time, and I completely agree with him:

It's not so much the whole defense, per se, but the defensive line. Championships are won by dominant defensive tackles and aggressive, athletic defensive ends. We're talking about college, but since Superbowl 50 is so fresh in memory, look at that game (and the AFC Championship, for that matter). Von Miller straight-up won the game.
 
Why is this so hard? In the end, if you want to win, you have to stop the other team from scoring. It always comes down to making sure the other team doesn't score.
 
Two big things...

1. Turnover battle
2. Field position battle

You usually win the game when you're on the positive side of those things.



Good defenses are more reliable IMO than good offenses. Success on offense is based on accurate reads, cohesiveness, clicking and execution. Defense doesn't take the same level of execution IMO.

Think about it. A good defense will win 10/10 reps against air. All they gotta do is perform their assignments. Even against air, an offense still has to execute. An offense can easily go 7/10 against air (no opponent) with a couple bad throws, dropped balls or bad snaps.
 
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