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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Just goes to show how meaningless of a stat total yards are. Look at games like the Steelers and the Bengals: the game was over in both cases by the early third quarter, then the opposing team marched up the field at will against prevent D for the second half. In those two games, Palmer and Rapelisberger threw for 732 yards combined, and they were virtually all garbage yards that occurred while the defense was largely doing its job
This defense reminds me a lot like the 2006 Colts defense - terrible statistically but created a lot of timely turnovers.
But thats not really the case. A lot of the yards were allowed with big leads when frankly they were meaningless.No team in NFL in the past 10 years has had a regular season record better than 8-8 giving up this size of yardage to offenses but this years Pats team is on its way to being the first to do so
Talk about timely mistakes from the opponents
Will defense betray Patriots in the end?
Not sure why you have that particular concern.What concerns me is how this defense will do in the playoffs against a team that has seen it already (Ravens/Colts/Chargers/Steelers). But a bye and playing at home should help.
Don't you mean that Colts Team that beat us in the AFC-CG and went on to defeat Chicago in the SB? Because i was thinking the same thing.
But thats not really the case. A lot of the yards were allowed with big leads when frankly they were meaningless.
Yards that dont add to points are not as relevant as yards that result in points, and yards that result in points when you lead by 3 scores not as relevant as yards that result in points in a tie game.
This is the reason that UNDERLYING statistics are not a better gauge of how good a team is (and a team is only as good as its abilty to win, no more no less) than the actual results of winning and losing.
For some reason sports fans in this country want to think they can judge what statistics have the most to do with winning and losing when in fact the weight on different categories is different from team to team, season to season and game to game.
The only thing that's truly p***ed me off this season is going into prevent against Peyton Manning. If you attack, he's going to go for the big yards, if you don't, he's still going to go for the big yards.
It was about more than the pass coverage calls.The only thing that's truly p***ed me off this season is going into prevent against Peyton Manning. If you attack, he's going to go for the big yards, if you don't, he's still going to go for the big yards.
We discussed the parallels a couple of months ago in a different thread.
2006 Colts- SB Champions
The Bad
Allowed 22.5 ppg
21st in yards allowed
30th in yards allowed per play
32nd in 3rd down defense.
32nd in rushing yards and ypc.
31st in rushing TDs allowed
30th in comp %
20th in INTs
30th in sacks
28th in 1st downs allowed
The Good
5th in passing TD allowed
15th in Qb Rating
2nd in passing yards allowed
2nd in yards per comp.
1st in fewest pass plays > 20 yrds
6th in forced fumbles
My take: They kept everything in front of them. Sounds familiar?