Week 4: 1. Green Bay Packers 14.563 2. Detroit Lions 12.25 3. Baltimore Ravens 11.109 4. Tennessee Titans 8.297 5. New Orleans Saints 7.828 6. New England Patriots 6.75 7. Buffalo Bills 3.75 8. Washington Redskins 3.609 9. New York Giants 3.188 10. Houston Texans 2.859 11. San Francisco 49ers 2.344 12. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2.063 13. San Diego Chargers 0.797 14. Cincinnati Bengals 0.656 15. Chicago Bears 0.563 16. Dallas Cowboys 0.063 17. Pittsburgh Steelers -0.313 18. Oakland Raiders -0.406 19. New York Jets -1.219 20. Arizona Cardinals -1.266 21. Atlanta Falcons -1.375 22. Carolina Panthers -2.25 23. Philadelphia Eagles -2.578 24. Cleveland Browns -3.156 25. Minnesota Vikings -4.375 26. Denver Broncos -5.484 27. Seattle Seahawks -6 28. Miami Dolphins -6.813 29. Kansas City Chiefs -7.031 30. Indianapolis Colts -8.5 31. Jacksonville Jaguars -9.797 32. St. Louis Rams -16.438
The Patriots do have the worst passing defense in the league..........I guess I can see him putting the Titans ahead of them in that perspective. New England has nearly allowed 500 passing yards a game so far. Matt Hasselbeck has reemerged and Chris Johnson has finally gotten things going. And their defense has played a heck of a lot better so far.
I've never been a big fan of using yardage to judge a defense, but the bad tackling by the Pats in the Bills and Raiders games was disturbing. I think they'll get it together as the season goes along. The Titans are playing very well, especially on defense; but losing Britt was a huge blow and they have to deal with the Texans who I believe are a better team. If I did a ranking I'd keep the Pats at 6th and maybe swap Tennessee and H-Town.
At first glance the Pats seem low. But we had basically nothing for defense and just lost our defensive captain for an extended time. I can see why they'd be at 6.
It's pretty simplistic, I take point differential, opponents win/loss percentage, team win/loss percentage. Recent games also have a bigger impact (so a 30+ point win in December will be worth more than a 30+ point win in September). But the rankings are always a work in progress, this is the 3rd year I've done them and so far the 1st 2 years I ended up making some sort of adjustment mid way through a season. So depending on how this season goes I may need to make another one.
Anyone else think it's odd that Belichik is a 'defensive guru' andf the Pats defense always sucks, but the offense is always near unstoppable?
they're last in yards but tied for 20th in points allowed. There's been more bad than good so far, but it's not the horror show that some of the stats make it out to be. The biggest thing aside from getting healthy is that for the d's best players to play like it. McCourty had an awful 2 game stretch but bounced back last sunday, so hopefully he can keep it going. Bodden needs to earn his big contract and with Mayo out, Spikes needs to play like he did agaisnt Oakland.
most insane stat about the Patriots this year: they're 3-0 when they've allowed 450+ yards but 0-1 when they held the opponent under 450.
