Run Defense and Special Teams

[Piper]

Are what won us the game.

That's what JDR thinks at least.

I think Jake had a thing or two to do with it, but those two things certianly helped.

We held a pretty good runner to a 3.2 average. Our guy got over 5 a carry.

We had 210 return yards. I don't know what they had, but it wasn't much.

 

[magnus]

Yep. Without Delhomme we never win this game. It's easy to say that D and ST won this game when they gave up 120 pass yards, net, but he had to have watched the game he was coaching.

Hell, defense didn't really play that well at all. Brunell with four incompletions all game? That's crazy. Granted a lot of it was dink and dunk but still had almost 300 yards.

Return yards were good (they had just 128, we outgained them by almost 100 yards) but there were some big mistakes on ST, too.