Big Turk Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 Yeah I know we are ranked 19th or whatever in total D, but to me, its much more important to look at yards per play against to get an idea of whats going on. We faced 89 offensive plays against New England, which really skewed that number, and of course we are going to give up a lot of yards doing that. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/stats/teamsort/NFL/O-TYDSG/2013/regular?&_3:col_1=6&_3:col_2=6 Right now, the Bills are ranked 5th(tied with Pittsburgh) in the NFL in yards per play, at 4.5 yards per play on defense. Kansas City(3.8), the Jets(3.9), Cleveland(4.2) and Houston(4.3) are the only teams ahead of them. Even more impresssive is the Bills are doing this while having played the most defensive plays in the NFL through 2 weeks, at 165, which gives the opposition an advantage in potentially tiring out the D and also a greater chance of breaking a big play. It is concerning however, that the Bills are allowing the 3rd worst(tied with Cleveland) 3rd down conversion rate in the NFL at 50%. If they could improve on that, they would go a long way towards improving their ability to limit the plays against on D, with only St. Louis and Chicago being worse(both at 51.9%). Also a concern is they are allowing more first downs per game than all but 4 other teams(Philadelphia, Washington, Denver and Minnesota) at 25.5 per game. However, this is only slightly above the league average percentage wise, as they are allowing a first down on 30.9% of plays(51 FD/165 plays), versus the league average of 29.6%(1272 FD/4299 Plays), and will likely continue to get better as the year goes on. The Jets are actually doing a phenomenal job on D limiting first downs, allowing only 17.3% of the plays to go for first downs, which is best in the NFL... This is not going to be an easy game, we have our work cut out for ourselves on Offense...
Kelly the Dog Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 With more teams going to the hurry up offense, stats are often going to be completely out of whack, especially team stats compared to other teams and other years. When the Bills and Eagles and other teams like the Patriots are running 15-20 more plays a game it has an enormous effect on yards gained and first downs, etc. The yards per play stat become way more telling. For the last couple years, the Patriots defense has had atrocious numbers, but it was more of a direct result of their offense in a hurry up mode and scoring 35-40 points a game and then their defense facing passing offenses trying to catch up and then playing in garbage time as much as being totally crappy on defense. Stats are enormously misleading when some teams are playing hurry up and others aren't. Even the Bills offensive stats are like that. If we didnt run off 10-15 more plays than we normally would, we would have 50-75 less yards running and passing.
Big Turk Posted September 18, 2013 Author Posted September 18, 2013 In comarison, last year the Bills allowed 5.6 yards per play, 11th worst in the NFL, although teams only averaged 65 plays per game against the current 83. If this trend continues, the D will see almost an extra 250 plays this season, equivlaent to an extra 4 games!! That's kinda crazy...
BillsFan-4-Ever Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 nice stat..... but it's just 2 games not enough data to compute
CSBill Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 "Even more impresssive is the Bills are doing this while having played the most defensive plays in the NFL through 2 weeks, at 165, which gives the opposition an advantage in potentially tiring out the D and also a greater chance of breaking a big play." So the only Defense this new fast-paced Offense of the Bills that is getting tired out is our own . . . and that cannot continue, or the Defense is playing with fire, and it will be worn down by the middle of the season. #SlowItDownOnOffense !!!!
BillsFan-4-Ever Posted September 18, 2013 Posted September 18, 2013 "Even more impresssive is the Bills are doing this while having played the most defensive plays in the NFL through 2 weeks, at 165, which gives the opposition an advantage in potentially tiring out the D and also a greater chance of breaking a big play." So the only Defense this new fast-paced Offense of the Bills that is getting tired out is our own . . . and that cannot continue, or the Defense is playing with fire, and it will be worn down by the middle of the season. #SlowItDownOnOffense !!!! that's because the Bills fast paced offense practices HELPED condition them Keep it fast, just execute better
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