Not my fault. I'm just going by the numbers.
Originally Posted by: nerdmann
What numbers? Please share these numbers and source of the numbers with us... thank you.
Because now it seems to be implied it's factual information, when previously, it was just something heard...
You previously said
Dunno if this is true, but I heard that in the last 9 games, the defense was top 5. If just calculated from there.
Originally Posted by: nerdmann
So is this something you heard? Or are you "just going by the numbers"?
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Edit: Added some stuff after research
Here are some numbers, Packers were 17th in team defensive yardage in both points and yardage for the 2022 season according to ESPN
https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/view/defense/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/asc No chance I'm about to do this for every team, but just for the Packers in the last 9 games, they game up 198 points. Which is about 22 points per game.
Now this is not apples to apples but compared to the full season, that would be 19th in the NFL... where again, Packers were 17th with 21.8 points per game.
So Packers actually did worse in points the last 9 games than the first 8 games, by 0.2 points and now top 16.
So for any chance of this rumor to be remotely true.... it would have to be either...
1) Top 5 defense in yardage ... which honestly IMO, team yardage doesn't matter, team points do.
Or
2) A different period of time... like say the last 4 or 5 games where they did average under 18 points a game. While facing the Bears, Rams, Dolphins, Vikings and Lions.
Where the Bears tanked, Rams were injury destroyed, Dolphins QB couldn't be stopped until a concussion where he then couldn't stop throwing INTs.
On the bright side is the Vikings and Lions games... kept both of them under 21 points.