OK? Now little credit?It's simple. Look at the quarterbacks.
In games where the defense has given up less than 27:
Blake Bortles
Sam Bradford
Eli Manning
Jay Cutler
Carson Wentz
Brock Osweiler
Brock has the highest QBR of those list of quarterbacks with a 56, good for 23rd in the NFL among qualifying quarterbacks. All of the others are ranked below that.
In games where the defense has given up 27 or more:
Matt Stafford
Dak Prescott
Matt Ryan
Andrew Luck
Marcus Mariota
Kirk Cousins
Every single one of those quarterbacks are ranked in the top 10 in QBR.
This is a very disturbing trend, and for me to give Capers and the defense any sort of credit, I'm going to reserve judgment until they are able to have a good performance against even one highly rated quarterback.
Possible I was right that the younger guys are getting it?