Defensive Stats - Through 3 games...

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Chaka

Why so pessimistic on this? Hunt I can't explain, but the rest of the defense is young and should only get better.

Depth. We don't have it. The DL depth has shown to be decent. But the LB depth is nonexistent. We are ok at safety and have 4 decent CB's playing.

If Hunt, Woods or Leonard go down, this defense changes in a hurry.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Depth. We don't have it. The DL depth has shown to be decent. But the LB depth is nonexistent. We are ok at safety and have 4 decent CB's playing.

If Hunt, Woods or Leonard go down, this defense changes in a hurry.

Yep, it is troubling.

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Depth. We don't have it. The DL depth has shown to be decent. But the LB depth is nonexistent. We are ok at safety and have 4 decent CB's playing.

If Hunt, Woods or Leonard go down, this defense changes in a hurry.

I get what you're saying - but isn't that true of most teams? I'd venture to say that if any team loses one or more star players to injuries, they'd have a hard time replacing them and getting anywhere near the same production.

As always, I keep my fingers crossed against injuries, but otherwise I'm a believer.

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by Chaka

I get what you're saying - but isn't that true of most teams? I'd venture to say that if any team loses one or more star players to injuries, they'd have a hard time replacing them and getting anywhere near the same production.

As always, I keep my fingers crossed against injuries, but otherwise I'm a believer.

I'm half way there as far a believing goes. I'm scarred by to many years of crappy defense to make me a real believer in 3 games. Lets run thru about 8 games and see if we can keep this up. Not worried about depth. Like Chaka says, nobody has the depth to lose their two best defensive players and not have it hurt bad. The future sure looks a hell of a lot better than it did even 6 months ago. One more draft like this last one and we will be knocking on the door. I am concerned about Luck though. Expected rust and hope that Reich is protecting Luck while the line gets healthy and learns to work together. Ill be holding my breath until they let it rip. If Luck can get back to his old self, I believe we are on track to be a force in the next few years

[DrSpaceman]

3rd down percentage on D they are a bit lower than the rest, ranked 20th at about 40%

Still not horrible.

Was trying to find red zone stats, can't track them down. Not sure why ESPN or NFL.com doesn't have those

[ukcolt]

I disagree about the depth....

DL, we picked up two guys after the cuts in Jihad Ward and Muhammad Al-Quadin, who have seen a lot of action and have done ok. It is not as if Sheard is pulling up trees, he was ok the last two weeks, but was bad in the first outing, with people shouting for him to get off the team! Kemeko Turay has shown a few flashes, so could well develop as the season goes along. Hopefully we get Tyquan Lewis at some point.

LB's, i think that Zaire Franklin, Najee Goode, Anthony Walker are all of a similar standing. If we lost Leonard then yeah that is going to be hard to replace that production.

Safeties, we have 3 guys in a solid rotation as it is, with Hooker, Geathers and Fairley.

CB's, have been using 4 regularly, Moore, Wilson, Hairston and Desir.

The real backend depth, so the guys off the practice squad who would be promoted up might be lacking somewhat, but as has been said before, that's the same for everyone.

[Pez]

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/sta...ne-scoring-pct


50% so far defensive red zone TD percentage so far, 100% at home....

This stat is confusing, I think it means....
50% of the time the opponent gets in the red zone, our D has prevented a TD, through three games.

100% of the time the opponent is in the red zone at Indianapolis, our D has prevented a TD (the redskins did not score a TD).

So we are in a seven way tie for best defensive red zone percentage at home. a 6 way tie for 19th best red zone D overall.

Small samples suck.

[Pez]

Originally Posted by DrSpaceman

3rd down percentage on D they are a bit lower than the rest, ranked 20th at about 40%

Still not horrible.

Was trying to find red zone stats, can't track them down. Not sure why ESPN or NFL.com doesn't have those

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/sta...ne-scoring-pct


50% so far defensive red zone TD percentage so far, 100% at home....

This stat is confusing, I think it means....
50% of the time the opponent gets in the red zone, our D has prevented a TD, through three games.

100% of the time the opponent is in the red zone at Indianapolis, our D has prevented a TD (the redskins did not score a TD).

So we are in a seven way tie for best defensive red zone percentage at home. a 6 way tie for 19th best red zone D overall.

Small samples suck.

[DrSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Pez

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/sta...ne-scoring-pct


50% so far defensive red zone TD percentage so far, 100% at home....

This stat is confusing, I think it means....
50% of the time the opponent gets in the red zone, our D has prevented a TD, through three games.

100% of the time the opponent is in the red zone at Indianapolis, our D has prevented a TD (the redskins did not score a TD).

So we are in a seven way tie for best defensive red zone percentage at home. a 6 way tie for 19th best red zone D overall.

Small samples suck.

I hate the way they present the red zone stats in general, always have, breaking it down by TDs and FGs.

They should present it as average points scored per red zone trip. One stat, easy to compare team to team.