No one has ever said that TOP doesn't matter to defensive statistics. The referenced thread was only meant to show that Chavis DOES have good defenses, even when he isn't helped by a good TOP. He's fielded top 10 defenses even when his team's TOP has been ranked nowhere near the top 10.

And that's not even getting into the chicken-and-egg question of whether the good TOP numbers have more to do with Chavis's defenses getting themselves off the field than his teams' offenses keeping them on the sidelines.

But back to the original topic, the hiring of Christensen is all the evidence you need of Sumlin's desire to run more effectively. Whether he wants to run more in terms of attempts remains to be seen, but at a minimum he knows that he needs to be able to run effectively when he wants to.

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Posted by therick711

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Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:06 pm to Mirthomatic

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No one has ever said that TOP doesn't matter to defensive statistics. The referenced thread was only meant to show that Chavis DOES have good defenses, even when he isn't helped by a good TOP. He's fielded top 10 defenses even when his team's TOP has been ranked nowhere near the top 10.

And the chart shows that lumping the statistics in obscures game to game trends that matter when evaluating the argument. As TOP increases, Defenses metrics become more impressive. When you plot the individual data points, you see that in games where his offenses were more productive, so was he. You guys want to fight this, but it is a stupid hill to die on. TOP and defensive production are correlated. Denying it makes you look stupid.