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The Rams, Lions, Ravens, and Texans all had more yardage than their divisional round opponents and all of them lost. Has that ever happened?!? (A comment from @zow2 made me look this up.)

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Teams that don't make mistakes and capitalize on other teams mistakes usually win these games.

 

Yardage can get wonky with other teams playing catch up.

 

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I prefer yards per play.

 

Houston outplayed the Chiefs, I think that much was obvious. Eagles Rams was down to the wire. Then turnovers really impacted the other two games. Usually the YPP winner tends to win outright, even more so than with total yards. Not perfect, but better.  

 

Yards Per play

5.2 Houston vs 4.2 Chiefs 

5.7 LA Rams vs 5.7 Eagles

7.7 Detroit vs 6.6 Washington

7.3 Baltimore vs 4.6 Buffalo 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

I prefer yards per play.

 

Houston outplayed the Chiefs, I think that much was obvious. Eagles Rams was down to the wire. Then turnovers really impacted the other two games. Usually the YPP winner tends to win outright, even more so than with total yards. Not perfect, but better.  

 

Yards Per play

5.2 Houston vs 4.2 Chiefs 

5.7 LA Rams vs 5.7 Eagles

7.7 Detroit vs 6.6 Washington

7.3 Baltimore vs 4.6 Buffalo 

 

 

 

Texans- 8 penalties 

Rams - 2 turnovers 

Lions- 5 turnovers 

Ravens- 3 turnovers 

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1 minute ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Texans- 8 penalties 

Rams - 2 turnovers 

Lions- 5 turnovers 

Ravens- 3 turnovers 


Yep, shows how important it is to take care of the ball and play disciplined.  During the drought years, we had some teams with playoff-level talent, but

frequently shot ourselves in the foot.

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11 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

Teams that don't make mistakes and capitalize on other teams mistakes usually win these games.

 

Yardage can get wonky with other teams playing catch up.

 

Agree.  That's why ranking a defense by yards given up is so meaningless.  

Bills D got the takeaways that decided the game.  

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I think i saw that the playoff teams with a minus turnover ratio are 0-7.  As i mentioned in the other thread, the mistakes are hurting teams more than the nice flashy plays are helping.  You need a few plays of course, but turnovers are going to make you lose, period, end of story.  Bills are not playing risky football right now.

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7 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Texans- 8 penalties 

Rams - 2 turnovers 

Lions- 5 turnovers 

Ravens- 3 turnovers 

I was just about to post this-the winning teams had a combined ZERO turnovers, while the losing teams combined for TEN turnovers 

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