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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.I'm going to hold off on the accolades until they play a lot better than they did on Sunday.
This is also skewed from early in the season when the defense was actually good.
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. You don't take bits and pieces and claim that one piece is more relevant than the others. You should be taking the entire body of work into consideration, and right now their body of work places them at #10 by points allowed.
Simple concept, really.:rocker:
This argument has failed time and time again. Just like every other stat that goes into ranking a defense, yards allowed is significant.
Last time I checked, yards allowed means nothing. It's about points allowed and takeaways. The rest is noise.
Points Allowed
- First 5 games: 21, 10, 3, 23, 13 = 14.0 per game
- Last 8 games: 27, 30, 17, 31, 24, 31, 31, 26 = 27.1 per game
So, uh, yeah. That 27.1 per game would put them 27th in the NFL. In other words, the defense was outstanding at the beginning of the season, but injuries have really caught up to them (Kelly, Wilfork, Mayo, Gregory, Talib, Dennard, etc.) and right now they're one of the worst defenses in the league by almost any reasonable measure.
Doesn't mean they can't make a run at the Lombardi….Heck, the awful 2006 Colts' defense played well in the playoffs.
How so?
Yards aren't significant if you continually pile it up yet end the majority of your drives with FG's or turnovers.
And as far as BB's defensive philosophy goes, we give up plenty of yards.
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. You don't take bits and pieces and claim that one piece is more relevant than the others. You should be taking the entire body of work into consideration, and right now their body of work places them at #10 by points allowed.
Simple concept, really.:rocker:
Pretty simple, actually. If your defense is giving up more yards to the opposition, it's giving up more first downs, which gives up more T.O.P. which, in turn, keeps your offense off the field where they cannot churn up yards, T.O.P. and score. Look at the game last night for a good example. San Diego didn't put up a 40burger, but they were moving the ball slowly and eating up yards throughout drives which, in turn, kept the league's top offense off the field. Those yards played their part in San Diego winning the game. Look at our defense for another example. At the beginning of the year, we were allowing less total yards per game than we are now. As the yards per game went up, so did the points per game.
No, it's not "pretty simple."
In the last 3 games we've won, we lost TOP in two of them.
In the Panthers game, we won the TOP.
Yards or TOP don't really matter if you're not executing (e.g., red zone efficiency). In the end pretty much all that matters is the number of points you give up as a defense.
No, it's not "pretty simple."
In the last 3 games we've won, we lost TOP in two of them
In the Panthers game, we won the TOP.
Yards or TOP don't really matter if you're not executing (e.g., red zone efficiency). In the end pretty much all that matters is the number of points you give up as a defense.
It is. You just don't want to admit as much because your point just got absolutely decimated in my last post.
In the Broncos game, controlling TOP by gaining yardage was a huge catalyst in coming back. In the Browns and Texans games, if not for some Brady brilliance in the second half and fourth quarter (along with an onside recovery), those are lost games.
And should have won the game if not for a picked up flag.
As I showed in my last post when pointing out our defense's YPG and PPG given up in the beginning of the season vs. now, yards and TOP effect the amount of points you allow the opponent. But I do agree that nothing else matters if you're not executing.
Absolutely decimated..?
The best metric for assessing if you have a good defense is the amount of points a defense gives up on average. That more than anything is the best indication of whether you're going to win a game or not. PPG includes red or end zone efficiency, TOP and yards don't.
It doesn't matter if you're marching down the field all day long if you don't get into the end zone. That's why yards aren't that significant when assessing a D if what you're doing is only giving up a FG and not a TD or if you've gotten a 3 and out on your end of the field rather than their 10 or 20. The bottom line, as BB likes to say, is what ends up on the scoreboard. Everything else is bull****.
2013 NFL Team Total Stats - National Football League - ESPN
That's pretty interesting...