strngplyr
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The mantra "defense wins championships" has been brainwashed into all of our heads, lol. The chart clearly refutes that claim showing the most balanced teams win more times than not and occasionally lopsided teams win having more dominate O's or D's.
YDs allowed is a deceptive stat, passing yards can accumulated quickly during a game especially with prevent defenses. We're 10th on rushing YDs allowed, this is interesting because rushing yards can usually kill more clock than passing YDs with 3-6 yrd gains on long sustained drives.
If teams like the pats and GB allowed more rushing yards they'd likely be a victim of the ground and pound come playoff time. I'm assuming covering that aspect of the D forces a shootout that both teams are built for, having the advantage.
You could probably argue our run D is the 10th ranked because of how often teams choose to pass on us.
Opponents have 485 pass attempts and 292 rush attempts at 4.2 ypc. 193 more pass attempts than rush attempts.
...gotta admit when I looked at those numbers I was pretty surprised. Says two things to me, teams are playing catch-up and they know they can easily dink and dunk passing all day.
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