Greg Blache Defensive Scheme!!

[an23dy]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Number one, there are definately stats kept on who faces the hardest competition. Again, these all suggest that it was pretty much a negligible difference, since you know 12 of our opponents were exactly the same as Philly. Here, is football outsiders rankings, and to get the opponent adjustment, you can just subtract the Non-adjusted from the adjusted total. Simple enough. Philly faced better offenses, by their rankings, but again, it's a really, really small difference, enough to not matter, which is what I've told you from the start. Other rankings I've seen say the same.

Number two, you cherry pick your numbers like only one other person I've ever talked to on this fourm, which given your propensity to deem other's numbers to be arbitrary, delights me very much. You point out that Philadelphia had three games with a high point total. Except that, we already know there's no way to skew it to say the Skins don't allow points at a faster rate. So I don't know what you are trying to say. Philly has a higher variance? That's true, I suppose.

Number three, I definately do know everything in bold is an irrelivant point. Last year, we gave up points at a faster rate than the Eagles, and we gave up more total points, and we faced fewer drives. To an extent, we did have a small bend-but-don't-break effect in our defense. It's true. We also broke undeniably faster than Philadelphia, Tennessee, or Minnesota. Like, gave up more points. That's what you mean by bend but don't break, is it not?

Number four, you apparently are okay quoting other people under my username. That's not cool, dude. I'm not just going to ignore that you did that.

Sorry for the quote, I copied and pasted the quote thing and didn't edit it on accident. We all make mistakes, just like all the mistakes you make in every reply you send.

Yeah check out the variance, it says Washington was more consistent than Philly. I guess that changes your earlier opinion on the matter because boom it's right there in the stats. It's okay we all make mistakes, and you spelled forum wrong too.

Yeah we play 12 of the same teams, I know how the schedule works, you don't need to make the same argument continuously. The difference in the other games is we play a good Philly offense they play a bad Redskin offense and the other two games had negligible difference.

The DVOA only takes into account certain statistics on defense and is incomplete. I bet they just fiddle with the stats til it looks how they think it should look. You can't tell everything from looking at statistics. Do you think Philly and Minnesota's defense was better than Tennessee's, because the stats might say so, but I wouldn't say that and I don't think you would either. And of course you're going to pull up those stats because they have the weighted thing towards the end of the season when Philly was playing their best defense, yet it still wasn't good enough to beat us, when they're playoff hopes were seemingly on the line.

Okay wait, yeah I see it so clearly now, -20.7%, but I think I still need to see the stat for pressure situations, or do they eliminate plays once a game is considered out of reach, or do they have a stat for whether a player is injured, or if he picked his nose between plays. IT'S OBJECTIVE, that's my argument. YOUR OPINION IS NOT ABSOLUTE UNDENIABLE TRUTH THAT EVERYBODY AGREES WITH BECAUSE YOUR PRECIOUS STATS SAY SO. Maybe you should stop crunching the numbers and doing your math homework on Sundays and actually watch the games and make an opinion of your own.