Joey007
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Originally Posted by supafly
I think we can all be relatively happy with the success thus far of the front seven, the high round rookies of Jones, Hightower, and Wilson, and the improvement of the CB's (although the bar was set pretty low last yr in that regard).
Since the defense was the main worry coming into the season, most are quite happy with the way they've played, aside from the safeties.
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supafly,
You know I've just been taking many posts here saying PATs defense is good and we should be happy about it.
What a shock to review the stats and see the PATs in the bottom half of the stats in almost every category. Ranking 25th in run and pass D is not
good at all. Last year at least PATs were around 15th in points allowed.
This year they are currently 18th! in points allowed.
Turnover battle may be a good stat for PATs didn't check it out.
nfl site says pats are 7th in run defense.
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yes...points allowed is the most important stat...but look at the games a little closer...the d has been put in TERRIBLE positions on quite a few instances. the only bad overall game imo was the ravens game...and that was decent for a while...then theu got torched
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Football | NFL | Team Leaders - Passes Dropped - washingtonpost.comI don't think that the offense is exactly in mid-late season form yet, but some of the offense's struggles have been exaggerated nonetheless.
Numero uno!OFFENSE
We have the one of the top offenses in the nfl, even without Mankins and Hernandez.
Joey007 said:I'm not sold yet. Give it 2 more weeks. That's stopping Denver's ground game and the bigger test, Seattle's ground game. I'll be sold then. I need to see that the Ravens performance wasn't our run D getting exposed.
It's a good point.I know I'm not breaking any huge ground with this, but our ability to effectively contain the run while still utilizing primarily a pass D formation is going to be very handy down the road.
They have possibly had their breakout party with that second half explosion, but it took a few games. I see nothing but more consistency going forward. It's going to be an incredible year for stats types.
It's a good point.
I still can't figure out why they were so effective in that package, but I remember reading a while back that Wilson brings a lot to stopping the run via his sound tackling and smarts to move himself around.
Either that or Mayo and Spikes are just two big monsters that can't be taken out of plays so easily. I'd like to see more of this but they do rank in the top ten at the quarter pole so things are not like last year when Haynesworth was embarrassing them.
I do also get a sense that they can definitely improve over time.
Just look at the number of injuries to the New England Patriots offense since the start of training camp:To think that they have done this with an inconsistent start minus Hernandez.