Comments on: The All-New, Official, On-Going AFC North Stats Watch https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/ An Introspective Steelers Site Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-825 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:33:44 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-825 Indeed a very good question. As I noted in the game recap, it’s hardly fair to expect a defense who has been on the field for perilously close to 2/3 of the game to not start flagging in the waning minutes, especially when the game is out of hand for the opposition. I think that only the ability to rotate rushers which is allowed by the depth at the d line and linebacker positions kept even more points from going on the board, especially with a mobile threat like Kaepernick. The D’s tongues were hanging out of their mouths by the end of the game.

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]]> By: steeler fever https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-815 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 03:10:14 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-815 Good question.

One thing about scoring a lot of points and getting a lead, often the defense will go into a prevent mode and give up yardage trying to prevent the big plays from happening. So in a sense our offense being so potent may skew downward how well our defense is actually playing, statically. Especially if we are giving up points and yardage in garbage time when the game is no longer in question as against Washington.

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]]> By: PittBoss72 https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-814 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:43:00 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-814 I wonder how the D would have ranked if we didn’t spring leaks on the back end of the 49ers game.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-813 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:14:36 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-813 : )

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]]> By: steeler fever https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-812 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:25:17 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-812 The Steelers defense keeps playing like they did last week they should start climbing up those rankings. My prediction for the defense before the season started was top twenty for the season but playing near the top ten by the end of the season. Can’t wait to see if I was right, and GoingDeep is where I will be finding out.

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]]> By: Rebecca https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-807 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:07:22 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-807 Julio Jones is ahead of Brown. They are incredibly close – 9.5 for Jones, 9.3 for Brown. The No. 3 guy is at 5.5 (Miami’s Jarvis Landry.)
As to McLendon, penalties have lowered his score (he sits at 0.0, 41 out of 70.) They like his run defense a lot.
The defense is the worst in the AFC N at the moment – it ranks 26th in the NFL. The Patriots have tied up the No. 32 slot.

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]]> By: steeler fever https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2015/09/24/the-all-new-official-on-going-afc-north-stats-watch/#comment-806 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:39:47 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=1304#comment-806 This is exactly what I was hoping for, thank you! Daniel McCullers really surprised me as the 21st ranked DT, where did Steve Mclendon rank? If I read the graph correctly the Steelers have the worst ranked defense in the NFL, somehow I thought they might have surpassed the Ravens but in the Ravens “defense” they did look very good in week one.

How anybody could be ranked ahead of AB is beyond me.

Thanks again, this is awesome!

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