Watch Sproles last night, hope the decision to trade him don't bite us in the butt. Devalue of running backs need to be carefully watch by our GM, we let Bush, Ivory, J. Bell, now Sproles go and rumors that we were shopping Pierre Thomas. I am not complaining cause we did get compensated for those rb but it was hard to see Sproles in a different jersey practically carrying a team on his shoulder to victory while we're 0-2 .

The Eagles lacking talent doesn't mean that Sproles could help our defense.

Darren was a cap casualty.

It's easy to blame all on defense, but the offense had the ball 1st in overtime, and if saints convert a 3rd down they could've took more time off the clock if not score and put us up by 8. It's not all defense although they should take most of thecriticism

Yes, it is. 'If' my aunt had balls she could score on this defense also. When you are putting up 29 points per game and #2 in scoring in the league, it is most certainly square on the defense. We should have never been in over time.

Read my Thread on offense vs defense and read Rob Ryan's words as he agrees. It is his defense.

I am not saying defense is not the blame, I am saying they're not solely the blame. Think about it, if we had Sproles we would've converted on 3rd down better than what we are doing now.

Well from what I have seen we are leading the league with a 57% conversion rate on third downs. Sproles wasn't getting the yards last year and was often tackled before he gained yards. Loosing Sproles has not damaged us

No sir. 3rd down conversion rate with out Sproles 58% (league high) and highest in the last 4 years.
3rd down conversion rate with Sproles
2013 44%
2012 44%
2011 57%


Is there more that went into those conversion rates in 3 years? Yes
Is there more that goes into it now? yes

I just applied your logic and no matter how you spin it. No

You comparing 2 games to 3 full seasons? how many times did we take a knee or just tried to run the clock out? Those stats confirm how much Sproles was effective