Oh, and I might add that in half of those loses, the defense held the opponent to 20 points or less.

And on those 4 games you are dismissing because we ultimately still won, the teams averaged 31 points against us. Those are terrible numbers.

Just because you end up winning does not mean that group did a good job. It is a team sport.

Plan and simple, overall the offense was great last year and the defense stunk, but we survived because our offense was so good (top 10 in points per drive vs the defense was just 94th in ppd) that they bailed out the defense.

In 2016, the offense under performed based on the talent we had in place but the defense did pretty good so it did not look so bad. However, we then saw what happened in 2017 and we had just an average defense that did not cover for our bad offense, and saw what happened and we had to make a coaching change.

I am not saying Tuiaki is bad, I think this year will be telling (since statistically he had an amazing year in 2020 against a very weak schedule), but I do believe that if this year is like last year's defensive performance, he might be in the hot seat.

But you can't just dismiss a coach's flaws because the rest of the team was good enough to overcome them and still win.