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[QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 4147022, member: 523"]
Defense takes 11 guys.  If a lineman is consistently getting in the backfield, creating pressure, sacks and tackles for loss, beating his blocks, double teams, getting off his blocks to make tackles he's good.  No one stat can cover all that.

A linebacker leading the team in tackles may or may not mean he's good but it suggests he can read the play and cover ground or it can mean his line is eating up blocks leaving him free to make a tackle. But, if that tackle is being made 6 yards down field it might not be so good.

For a DB the best stat is number of targets.  Deion Sanders was so good people stopped challenging him, so what do passes defended or interceptions even mean.  Tackles for a S or CB is meaningless.  In our worst years those guys led the team in tackles because teams were ripping of 10 yds a play.  Still are essentially, if not every play.  Hence an LB leading tackler.

They only real way to evaluate defense is on film.
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