RodThePat
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I was going to start a thread on this, but I was sure it would have been moved to this thread, or another one like it. So here goes...
I wanted to compare the first 7 games of last season to the first 7 games of this season, and see if the defense has improved at all from this point last year. Here are the numbers:
Category: 2011 - 2012
Points allowed: 160 (22.9/g) - 163 (23.3/g)
Yards allowed: 2969 (424.1/g) - 2632 (376.0/g)
Rush yds allowed: 707 (101.0/g) - 602 (86.0/g)
Pass yds allowed: 2262 (323.1/g) - 2030 (290.0/g)
I would suggest that, on the whole, the defense is performing better than it was up to this point in 2011. It seems like the Pats are getting roasted all the time, but it *is* a slight improvement from last year, at least to this point in the season. We'll see where they are at the end of the year.
This season they have faced Locker, Kolb, Flacco, Fitzpatrick, Manning, Wilson and Sanchez. Not exactly a murder's row of quarterbacks. 7 games in last season they at least had played against Rivers, Romo and Roethlisberger. You may very well make the argument that this secondary isn't playing as poorly as last season's, but the results have pretty much been the same.