08-04-2015, 06:12 PM
(08-04-2015, 04:16 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Just some food for thought:
Indy and Houston both had better defenses than that of the Steelers, Bengals, and Browns.
Baltimore - 9 --------- Indy - 11
Pittsburgh - 18 ---------- Houston - 16
Cincinnati - 22 ---------- Jacksonville - 27
Cleveland - 23 ---------- Tennessee - 28
The AFCN vs the AFCS in team defense wasn't really that far apart last year. At least not enough to use as a lone reason to explain why Ryan Fitzpatrick had a better year than Dalton.
Total defense numbers are kind of meaningless when talking about a QBs pass efficiency rating. The picture is much different if you compare apples to apples.
Fitzpatrick only played ONE game against a team that ranked higher than 13th in pass efficiency defense. Over half (58%) of his games (7 of 12) were against teams that ranked 20th or lower.
On the other hand Dalton played 5 games against top 10 pass efficiency defenses (including 2 against the #1 ranked pass defense in the league), and only a little more than a third (38%) of his games (6 of 16) came against teams ranked 20th or lower
