I guess it helps to make the playoffs and actually be on a team where 3/5's of the team doesn't suck defensively. This includes Baron's silly reaches. But I really like Sjax's example in that he provides good shooting, nice passing, and he plays the D like every playoff team is supposed to. You don't even have to get tangible stats to play D. Just look at Bruce Bowen and how he never really ends up with that many steals or blocks. Oh well, at least it feels we're better than with Murphyleavey.
I like the new forum look too, it's faster and cleaner. However, I don't like having the "important topics" up at the top since I have to scroll past them every time to get to the normal threads. The most recent post of any of those is like 4 months ago so I'd rather see them on the bottom or just linked to a different page.