Week 2 DVOA

Seattle remains higher than most of us would probably anticipate. No opponent adjustments account for a good bit of that, though.

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We've got a top 8 defense

If you look at yardage, points, passing, etc and completely ignore strength of opponents.

Mike Wahle(OG), Walter Jones(LT), Chris Spencer(C), Marcus Trufant(CB), Deion Branch(WR), Sean Locklear(OT), Brandon Mebane(DT), Leroy Hill(LB), Lofa Tatupu(LB), Josh Wilson(CB), Justin Griffith(FB), Matt Hasselbeck (QB)

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 2:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Which is to say, completely ignore the performance of our defense.

No, not really, it’s not that bad. But it definitely hasn’t been the 8th best defensive performance to date, really regardless of opponent adjustments. The success criteria bolstered our case more than we quality of play really wowed me, snap to snap.

Though with the two runs and the mid-3rd quarter onward our defense was embarrassed, the 2nd quarter against the Rams til half-time or so was not displeasing. Its also not an formidable force that can pick up the slack for the rest of the team.

by jacobstevens on Sep 22, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I'm just pulling numbers from this post

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/5507/where-they-rank-on-defense-week-2-2 and making rough approximations in my noggin. The numbers don’t really mean much (especially when you consider the amount of personnel turnover).

Its kind of like this post:

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/5139/defenses-prevail-in-nfc-west

The Arizona, Seattle and San Francisco defenses allowed only 36 points during Week 1.

Where Sando averages the defenses of the Hawks, Cards and Niners (but not the Rams) for one game and calls the NFC West good defensively. The numbers only make sense because he averaged in the Hawks’ shutout against the Lambs.

by ninjasocks on Sep 22, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The numbers don't mean much

except they do. Red zone defense has a good correlation to championship contention. You don’t generally get success by targeting it — bend don’t break — and it’s not always sustainable, and it can’t always make up for your other deficiencies, but if a team like ours truly has any semblance of a contender somewhere underneath the surface, it would be reflected here.

There can be false positives, but not false negatives — if this team, as they are now, were also hopeless defensively in the red zone, I’d probably feel comfortable in writing off the season.

by jacobstevens on Sep 22, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs