Matt Patricia & Brian Flores: team defense stats

[patsinthesnow]

Lions defensive stats:

402.1 yards per game (30th)
26.3 PPG (24th)
4.6 yards per carry (22nd)
100.1 passer rating (23rd)
3 INTs (31st)
19 sacks (26th)
44.8 third down pct (26th)

Defensive talent includes Flowers, Harrison, Robinson, Slay & Coleman



Meanwhile, Flores has held his last two opponents to under 20 points with an XFL team.

 

[Joey007]

So is our sentiment here that Patricia was never actually very good?

 

[Patstastic]

Makes me question how much imput Patricia had on the defense here. Especially considering Bill's defensive background. I liked Patricia. But I always felt his defenses had a bend not break mindset. I now feel as though they have an attacking mindset. Create a turnover any way possible.

 

[Ring 6]

Lions defensive stats:

402.1 yards per game (30th)
26.3 PPG (24th)
4.6 yards per carry (22nd)
100.1 passer rating (23rd)
3 INTs (31st)
19 sacks (26th)
44.8 third down pct (26th)

Defensive talent includes Flowers, Harrison, Robinson, Slay & Coleman



Meanwhile, Flores has held his last two opponents to under 20 points with an XFL team.

Not sure I see much talent on Detroit’s defense

 

[catent]

If you look at the turnovers produced by Patricia coordinated defenses, the numbers were always relatively low when compared to Flores/BB coordinated defenses.

Despite his undergraduate work and exterior "genius" persona, I was never convinced that he was particularly brilliant when listening to him speak.

Appreciate his time here but can't say I'd take him here over Flores last year, or BB/SB/JM this year.

 

[Ian]

I think I saw a stat saying that the Lions only blitz on 4% of their snaps, which when looking at last year and this year with this Patriots team and what they've done, it's an interesting contrast.

 

[203Pat]

Patricia also has no talent on defense and an underwhelming offense that isn’t always able to sustain long drives. Life is a lot easier for any coach when they have the greatest quarterback who ever walked the earth on the roster.

 

[Patstastic]

If you look at the turnovers produced by Patricia coordinated defenses, the numbers were always relatively low when compared to Flores/BB coordinated defenses.

Despite his undergraduate work and exterior "genius" persona, I was never convinced that he was particularly brilliant when listening to him speak.

Appreciate his time here but can't say I'd take him here over Flores last year, or BB/SB/JM this year.

Yeah I've loved the defensive mindset more since he left. But again I think the defense as a whole run throws BB. I don't think a defensive playcall is made without him knowing first.

 

[Family]

Would Patricia be invited back?

 

[mosi]

Would Patricia be invited back?

To dinner maybe. Not to breakfast.

 

[Patstastic]

Would Patricia be invited back?

I don't want him calling plays over Mayo and/or the Belichick's. I think he'd be welcomed back as an assitant of some kind.

 

[slam]

Catching Lions and Dolphins games this year I saw their defenses play like the Pats defenses did during their times here but with lesser talent. Lions contain rushing Rodgers, letting them trickle down the field inexorably. Hoping for a mistake that didn’t come. Dolphins zero blitzing the Steelers at 4th and 20 at the end of the half, only for a simple slant to turn into a long TD.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

Flores led the fewest points given up ever in a Superbowl. Flores was with Belichick for 20 years. Good for him looks like he's getting improvement from the roster while strategically still tanking for a top pick.

 

[Zuma]

Player skill has a lot to do with how aggressive a defense can be. Their were times when Matty was the DC and the linebackers couldn’t do as many things as they can now...and the secondary was not as skillful.

 

[DarrylS]

Watched the Detroit game yesterday, it looked reminiscent of the Pats "bend but do not break' days, I really saw a lot of shortcomings during that time...

The days when the Offense/Brady had to always bail out the defense..