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Total yards allowed doesn’t seem as useful to me as average per game. Total yards may be inflated by playing an additional game or one bad game, for example if a key player is dinged up badly enough to be out for a week.
but I’d like to take a deeper look, what site do you prefer as a source? Can they show historical rankings, like where Cleveland ranked before the Pats rolled over them for 184 yards?
EDIT to add: ESPN has CLE eighth (not ninth!) in total rushing yards allowed, with 947 total over ten games. Last week the Pats ran for 184 yards against them. If you back out that anomaly and replace it with their average rushing yards per game allowed (94.7) they would rank fifth. One bad game. Or one good opponent. Made a big difference either way. That’s why I said the average per game is a better measure.
The tag is definitely a strong possibility, I think a longterm deal gets done however if Jackson continues to play like the last few weeks. There is no Gilmore to pay, there might be no Phillips or McCourty to pay. Backload the contract and take on like a 6-7 million cap hit next year. Franchise tag would give Belichick a year time to find the successor.
It's all about supply and demand. CB1s get the big bucks, especially young and rising ones. BB has shown he will pay for CB1 skills if the player is still in his prime. Unfortunately things did not work out with Gilly, but that's because both sides knew he wasn't going to be here after this season.
Total yards allowed doesn’t seem as useful to me as average per game. Total yards may be inflated by playing an additional game or one bad game, for example if a key player is dinged up badly enough to be out for a week.
but I’d like to take a deeper look, what site do you prefer as a source? Can they show historical rankings, like where Cleveland ranked before the Pats rolled over them for 184 yards?
EDIT to add: ESPN has CLE eighth (not ninth!) in total rushing yards allowed, with 947 total over ten games. Last week the Pats ran for 184 yards against them. If you back out that anomaly and replace it with their average rushing yards per game allowed (94.7) they would rank fifth. One bad game. Or one good opponent. Made a big difference either way. That’s why I said the average per game is a better measure.
Show me yards per point ... Teams like New England are focused on containment between the 20's, shut down in the Red Zone. Which is better - allowing 250 yards total offense, but giving up 28, or 400 yards and giving up 4 field goals?
I was actually going to comment on him last night. Who would have thought he'd turn into the coverage LB. With HT slowed, and Collins old and on IR, Bentley did a great job overall. He's an impact in the run game, and seems to be moving a lot better in coverage.
PS - HT does better when he basically plays like an off the line DE. Run stuffing in the middle or setting the edge. He just needs to finish his tackles better.
Total yards allowed doesn’t seem as useful to me as average per game. Total yards may be inflated by playing an additional game or one bad game, for example if a key player is dinged up badly enough to be out for a week.
but I’d like to take a deeper look, what site do you prefer as a source? Can they show historical rankings, like where Cleveland ranked before the Pats rolled over them for 184 yards?
EDIT to add: ESPN has CLE eighth (not ninth!) in total rushing yards allowed, with 947 total over ten games. Last week the Pats ran for 184 yards against them. If you back out that anomaly and replace it with their average rushing yards per game allowed (94.7) they would rank fifth. One bad game. Or one good opponent. Made a big difference either way. That’s why I said the average per game is a better measure.
The whole blocking unit is the real X factor. Everyone significantly improved doing poor job in September. OL got starters healthy.
Look at Henry then and now. Look at WRs then and now. Or look at Jakub then and now.
Yards while not amazingly important, can be an issue if it keeps your offense off the field by your team letting teams convert 3rd downs over and over. So its not just nothing.
I don't think Tennessee will lose another game other than maybe against NE. The last month they've defeated KC, Indy, NO, Buffalo, and LA. If they were going to lose another game, it would have been during this stretch. The only game left that I see that Tennessee may lose other than NE is vs SF.
TN is playing Patriots football. Fundamentally sound, using what they have, winning in the trenches.
This game coming up is WAY harder than some of us are making it out to be just because they've lost a couple "name" players. As a TEAM they are still very formidable.
