NFL Network's RedZone Colts stat of the week: Week Fifteen

by BigBlueShoe on Dec 16, 2009 11:30 AM EST in Analysis Comment 17 comments

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With the Colts defense still only surrendering 16.7 points per game, they maintain their hold on the #2 scoring defense spot. The Cincinnati Bengals (former #1 scoring defense) dropped to third after they were waxed by the Minnesota Vikings this past Sunday.

The #1 scoring defense is the New York Jets (16.2 ppg), but if you've watched the Jets recently (and God knows I have) you know this ranking is deceiving. The Jets are minus Kris Jenkins, their best internal run stuffer, who is out for the season. They've benched Kerry Rhodes, arguably their best safety. Darrelle Revis is still a beast and Bart Scott has clearly made a difference with this team. However, their last three opponents have been the Carolina Panthers, the Buffalo Bills, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. No offense to the Jets, but if my team played those three teams one, two, three, they damn well better lead the league in scoring defense.

Also, for the Jets, the three games prior to the Panthers, Bills, and Bucs were against the Patriots, Dolphins, and Jaguars. The Jets surrendered an average of 28 points per game against those teams, and lost all three games.

The Colts are also #5 in yard per completion, allowing only 6.3. Anytime you can limit a team to less than 7 yards a completion, you have a good defense.

Also, I highly suggest you check out NFL.com's new offensive line stats system. I just discovered it this morning. Anyone know how long this thing has been up? Colts have allowed the fewest sacks in the NFL (only 10). Their "power ranking" rushing right is 19th, rushing up the center is 7th, and rushing left is 8th. The #1 power rushing team running left: The Jaguars.

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You forgot to mention

That we’ve already played one team(two if you count the Jags the first time) tied for first in power success to the left(Niners), and will play another one after the Jags(the Jets). I would say our rushing defense has really been tested. If we can contain MJD again, and limit Thomas Jones and Shonn Greene next week, I think we will have proved that we can be successful in the postseason.

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by Bullard47 on Dec 16, 2009 11:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Any stat like that

I go to FO. FO was the reason why I was defending Diem last season. Most of the failed stretch plays to the right side of the line were due to a lack of blocking from a TE. In a 2 TE set with no real FB, or none at all during most of the plays, you can’t place the blame entirely on the RG.

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by monstersbox on Dec 16, 2009 12:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

i think you misspoke at the end, right

with saying RG?

Anyhow, with regards to the ‘old’ RG, i believe he was ‘metriced’ to be the worst RG in the league by two different advanced stats people(s).

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by SpazMo on Dec 16, 2009 11:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm pretty skeptical of these power stats being meaningful

Seems very likely that the sample size is going to be too small to have any real significance. Honestly, how many times have the Colts run up the middle on 3rd and short this season? It can’t be many.

Calling them line stats can be fairly misleading too. I can think of at least 2 short yardage plays in the last few games where the Colts O-line was blown up only to be bailed out by impressive efforts from RBs.

-Addai’s 4th and 1 run at midfield in the 3rd quarter of the 2nd Texans game
-Hart’s 3rd and 1 on the last scoring drive against Denver

No one watching either of those plays would praise the line, but both times a Colts RB evaded a defender in the backfield to pick up a first down. This NFL stat misses that completely.

by TheNoodleMan on Dec 16, 2009 12:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Sneaks?

QB sneaks count as runs up the middle, right? How many sneaks have the Colts done?

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by BigBlueShoe on Dec 16, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Peyton's probably good for 1 or 2 QB sneaks a year.

Although I can’t recall any QB sneaks this year so far. That’s not really his forte – Brady, Big Ben, A. Rodgers…really most QBs in the league will sneak on 3rd or 4th and a yard or less, but the Colts rarely do.

by saurkrauter on Dec 16, 2009 1:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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by TheNFLNetwork on Dec 16, 2009 2:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

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by Cassieper on Dec 17, 2009 5:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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by Ufanforreal on Dec 16, 2009 3:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I just flagged it

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by slash196 on Dec 16, 2009 3:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

There was another Spammer??

We had one in the Monday Night thread that had gone SBN wide. Shake banned the account.

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by coltsfan723 on Dec 16, 2009 5:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

it just occured to me...

that lost in all the play ‘em/rest ’em talk, i.e. “the colts rested their players those years and look where it got them” is the fact that in those losses to the Steelers and Chargers, each of those games came down to the wire. it’s silly to assume that if they had of played the starters in meaningless games that the Colts would have blown their competitors out of the water. silly and insulting to the other teams. sure, there may have been rust, but that could have just as easily accumulated during the bye week. just food for thought.
also, can anyone tell me the play when Donald Brown supposedly injured his chest?

by ColtFanInVT on Dec 16, 2009 3:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I agree 100% with this, and all of that "Rest or Rust" talk is complete B.S.

But here’s what pisses me off the most: These jerkoffs on the NFL Network and especially ESPN are glossed as NFL Analysts, with the keyword here being ANALYSTS. But they don’t analyze shit. They only report on the painfully obvious takes, the most popular points of view which predominate in the greater Boston area, and those which require the LEAST amount of analyzing.

They aim not to inform, but to impose their nausiating opinions.

BBS pointed out a great column over at 18to88.com entitled “Over Charged” (http://www.18to88.com/2009-archives/december/over-charged.html), and THIS is what good football analysis is all about. It’s about going inside the numbers, breaking down matchups and analyzing the data. It’s not about looking at how a team from 4 years ago beat us when we rested players. WTF does that have to do about anything pertaining to this year’s game, team or hypothetical matchup?

ESPN doesn’t even manufacture analysis anymore – they’re run by a bunch of primadonna, has-been asshats whose arrogant confidence makes Tiger Woods look like Woody Allen. Their agendas and opinions have already been pre-set and rehearsed before any Sunday Kickoff, and as Jason Whitlock says, it has absolutely killed true sports journalism today.

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by Mr. Indianapolis Colts on Dec 16, 2009 4:04 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs

Change your name

To Sir Indianapolis Colts, because this comment was a royal beatdown. :)

by BigBlueShoe on Dec 16, 2009 4:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm truly honored BBS

Although I think it only fitting that King Richard knights me:)

I’ve been lurking awhile, and that rant stems completely from the fact that I used to love watching the pundits on both ESPN and NFL Networks talk about the Colts from the standpoint that I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Peyton and his boys get airtime. I turn off the TV now every time the Colts come on, b/c it’s the SSDD with these guys on how the Colts can’t do this, or the Colts didn’t win the game, Team X lost the game. And now that it’s spilled over to the Internets too, I’ve taken a complete about-face on the whole media coverage angle insomuchas I don’t want to see anymore Colts coverage b/c it’s going to be tainted, it’s going to be horribly skewed and most of all it’ll just piss me off.

Now, I don’t need to come to the Stamped Blue posts like a little puppy to get my Colts-loving belly rubbed; I can stand criticism of my team…as long as it makes sense and it’s not being spouted-off like some Keyshawn Johnson diarrhea-at-the-mouth “we beat them 41-0 in the playoffs 20 years ago” nonsense.

Ultimately, I want what you want BBS: genuine journalism.

I Bleed Blue! Go Colts!

by Mr. Indianapolis Colts on Dec 16, 2009 4:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs