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Message: [QUOTE="Orijinal, post: 2607059, member: 2359"] One major reason I believe that the final 2 game swoons are more related to stamina than a few injuries on defense is the fact that the defense is getting run over, and I do mean run over. They are not even competitive. If they were competitive but lost I would buy the injury argument. The other reason I fully believe this is a stamina thing is that in 2017 it became a pattern. 2016 it happened once. It happens in 2017, it's a pattern And another reason I believe this is stamina and not [B][I]solely[/I][/B] an injury issue is that the defense was playing lights out on 3rd down most of last season. And then the team went from very, very good, to suddenly annihilated. That kind of drop off doesn't happen because of 3 or 4 injuries. Everyone is banged up at that point in the season, including the other team [/QUOTE]