Seeing how the team capped off the Super Bowl run today I'm wondering: Is this the best coaching job ever on defense by a Bill Belichick team (plus staff of course) if you consider the talent level of the front seven and the era?
The D played dominantly for 10 out of 12 quarters. Factoring in...
There is this take floating out there that a big reason for the Patriots defense's low points allowed total since week 5 of the season is due to having great field position. From a superficial look the point appears to have some merit. The average starting field position of the Patriots' defense...
That is the performance of the Seahawks' running game inside the 10-yard line this season. And 3 yards came from Wilson on 3 carries. That's right, their RBs combined for -3 yards on 20 carries. How is this even possible. :eek:
This season's defensive performance was really marked by the stark difference between weeks 1-6 and 7-17. It was almost as if two different units were out there. In the first six weeks of the season every opponent cracked 400 yards of offense and 300 yards passing. Since then only the Pittsburgh...
As always with PFF, take it with a grain of salt.
First Team Offense
QB - Tom Brady (NE)
RB - Ezekiel Elliot (DAL)
FB - Kyle Juszczyk (BAL)
WR - Mike Evans (TB)
WR - Julio Jones (ATL)
TE - Travis Kelce (KC)
Flex - David Johnson (ARI)
LT - Trent Williams (WAS)
LG - Marshal Yanda (BAL)
C -...
The newest DVOA ranking released by Football Outsiders contains an interesting little breakdown regarding the Patriots' DVOA, especially on defence. For offensive, ST and total DVOA the higher the number, the better, for defensive DVOA the lower the number the better.
Week 1-4 (no Brady): 2.8%...
... are the Patriots. In the four-year period since the implementation of the 2011 CBA only two teams have spent less cash than the Patriots (the Panthers and Raiders). In those four years the Patriots have gone 12-4 each year, gone to the AFCCG every time and won one Super Bowl.
Wondering how the top-5 scoring defenses are doing on average I collected all data grouped into halves and then normalized them by cutting off the two halves that exceeded one standard deviation of the average points allowed in both directions. So for example, for the Patriots the first halves...
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Granted, Wilson's been very conservative this year running with the football with his injury and the crappy offensive line, but still funny to see. Teams will be playing contain against Brady soon.
Digging a bit deeper into the splits of the defense in the first four week it's extremely startling just how inconsistent the defense has been. Not from a game-to-game basis but from a half-to-half basis within a single game. If you take the best halves of each game the defense looks like a...
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