re: Chavis felt his defense was under unnecessary strain?

The defenses' goal should be to make the opposing offense go 3 and out every possession anyway whether the score is 50-0 or 0-50 they pretty much put the same amount of pressure on themselves to shut the other team down. TOP is the only stat that adds legitimate physical stress to the defense. Our defense feeling extra pressure to keep the other team out of the endzone for one series at the end of a game because our offense doesn't put up a lot of points isn't nearly as bad as if our defense only got 30 seconds of rest between appearances because our TOP sucks