08-04-2015, 06:34 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.
Well, the defenses Andy faced had an average ranking of 16.7 compared to an average rank of 22nd for the teams Fitzy faced. Not a huge difference, but definitely a difference. I'd also argue that Fitzy had better receivers last year, with Andre Johnson and DeAndre Hopkins healthy all year long.
Either way, it was a career year for Fitz and a career worst year for Dalton. I don't think too many people actually feel that Dalton and Fitzpatrick are on a similar level.
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