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Agent Orange
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A Safety can make a good defensive play on a big pass where someone blew their assignment, the play may go for 30 yards. But because a safety took a good angle and made a sure tackle he prevented a TD. The blown coverage wasn't his mistake, but he made a good defensive play on a play that netted 30 yards...
Conversely, a lineman and a linebacker can both miss tackles in the backfield and the runner gains 8 yards because of it... Only 8 yards but that was still a bad defensive play...
Good and bad are highly subjective, and if Dooley cared that people were going to crap a turkey because he said "60 good" and "15 bad" he would have instead said "There are about 40 average plays that anyone can make, there are 10 plays we made because of correct scheming, there are 10 we didnt make because of incorrect scheming, there were 5 made by defensive playmakers, and there were 10 not made as a result of poor positioning, poor angles, mental lapses or simply being beat on the play"... That would remove the subjectivity of his original statement which the truely uneducated like to immediately pounce on and say "Ha, 15?? More like all of them." However, those that would do that would have missed the ENTIRE point of the message he was trying to convey...
It doesn't matter. As a unit the entire defense is atrocious. There might be good players in it... or players intermittently making good plays but as a whole giving up a 30 yard play isn't "a good play" even if it was mitigated.
Oh, but sure, it can always be worse so therefore it's not that bad, right?
I'm not buying.