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Old 11-03-2024, 11:18 AM
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12th in points allowed despite being put in so many bad positions by the offense, dealing with major injuries, and being on the field more than any other defense both in terms of TOP and plays. They're averaging nearly an extra minute and an extra play per game on the field than the second to last team. That seems pretty good to me.
Our overall points allowed average is very much skewed by the fact that we've played against some REALLY bad offenses. A better way to look at it is points allowed vs. average amongst all other opponents. Also, the TOP, at least early on, was just as much the D's fault as the O's since we were being gashed in the running game and (as always) have struggled getting off the field on 3rd down.

Game by game here's what our D has done:

HOU - +6 vs. average against all other opponents of 23. Gave up 213 yards rushing and 5.3 ypc. Bad performance.

@GB - (14) vs. their only other game w/ Willis starting where they scored 30 on the Tits. So based solely on the scoreboard you would think the D played well, but we have up 261 rushing yards and allowed 86% completion rate to Willis as GB completely dominated TOP. We've seen worse, but still a bad performance.

CHI - (9) vs. 25 against other opponents. Overall a decent to good performance against what was at the time a struggling Bears O.

Pitt - +4 vs. 20 against other opponents w/ Fields starting. A tale of 2 halves as the D played great in the 1st and was horrible in the 2nd, 3 points allowed vs. 21. Our D also did what it does against bad QBs and turned Fields into a HOF for a half. Bad performance

Jagoffs - +17 vs. 19 against all other opponents. One of the worst defensive performances in the league this season to date. Allowed almost double the Jagoffs average against other teams and also turned your boy Lawrence into a HOF for a day, giving up both career passing yards and completion % to him of 371 yards and 82%.

Tits - 0 vs. 17 average. Good performance but league average against a horrendous O.

MIA - 0 vs. 10 average w/ Tua not starting. Again, a good performance but league average against a historically bad O.

HOU - 0 vs. 23 average. Decent day and league average. Bit of a caveat though that HOU was played w/out their WR1 and their WR2 from ~halfway through the 3rd quarter.


So yeah, the D has been better these past 3 weeks. Part of that is getting healthier, but another big part is the O's we've played. We play top 7 scoring offenses 3 of the next 4 games, so we'll see if the past couple of weeks are fools gold or not.

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Old 11-03-2024, 11:35 AM
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Our overall points allowed average is very much skewed by the fact that we've played against some REALLY bad offenses. A better way to look at it is points allowed vs. average amongst all other opponents. Also, the TOP, at least early on, was just as much the D's fault as the O's since we were being gashed in the running game and (as always) have struggled getting off the field on 3rd down.

Game by game here's what our D has done:

HOU - +6 vs. average against all other opponents of 23. Gave up 213 yards rushing and 5.3 ypc. Bad performance.

@GB - (14) vs. their only other game w/ Willis starting where they scored 30 on the Tits. So based solely on the scoreboard you would think the D played well, but we have up 261 rushing yards and allowed 86% completion rate to Willis as GB completely dominated TOP. We've seen worse, but still a bad performance.

CHI - (9) vs. 25 against other opponents. Overall a decent to good performance against what was at the time a struggling Bears O.

Pitt - +4 vs. 20 against other opponents w/ Fields starting. A tale of 2 halves as the D played great in the 1st and was horrible in the 2nd, 3 points allowed vs. 21. Our D also did what it does against bad QBs and turned Fields into a HOF for a half. Bad performance

Jagoffs - +17 vs. 19 against all other opponents. One of the worst defensive performances in the league YTD. Allowed almost double the Jagoffs average against other teams and also turned your boy Lawrence into a HOF for a day, giving up both career passing yards and completion % to him of 371 yards and 82%.

Tits - 0 vs. 17 average. Good performance but league average against a horrendous O.

MIA - 0 vs. 10 average w/ Tua not starting. Again, a good performance but league average against a historically bad O.

HOU - 0 vs. 23 average. Decent day and league average. Bit of a caveat though that HOU was played w/out their WR1 and their WR2 from ~halfway through the 3rd quarter.


So yeah, the D has been better these past 3 weeks. Part of that is getting healthier, but another big part is the O's we've played. We play top 7 scoring offenses 3 of the next 4 games, so we'll see if the past couple of weeks are fools gold or not.
Has anybody noticed how poor of a job Strausser is doing with the Texicans O-Line?
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Has anybody noticed how poor of a job Strausser is doing with the Texicans O-Line?
Yep. Not only did we get some decent pressure on Stroud, but the Jet's DL set up camp in the Texans' backfield.
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