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Originally Posted by Dam8610
Not saying you're wrong, but I'd be more interested in metrics like third down success rate, red zone success rate, takeaways, sack rate, pressure rate, negative plays forced, points per drive, etc. As metrics of a successful defense than yards allowed. Yards allowed can be skewed by a high volume of plays, which, as Chromeburn pointed out earlier, the Colts defense has the most plays run against them in the league.
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Correct.
The Colts' defense had one of their best games of the year in their win over the Ravens, but they ceded 364 yards in that game ...... in the Panthers game, the Colts' defense gave up only 275 yards, and they played similarly well in that game as they did in the game against the Ravens ....... but if you looked strictly at the number of yards ceded by the defense and compared the two, you would think that they played considerably better in the Panthers game than in the Ravens game. Additionally, the Colts were playing a much more potent offense when they played against the Ravens compared to the offense in which they faced against the Panthers.
As I stated earlier, watch the games with your own lying eyes if you want to see how a team and/or their specific units are playing rather than relying on generic statistics such as points allowed and/or yardage ceded.
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