beakybird wrote:
Seriously man, if I were to pick any team riding it's D to the championship it'd be the Texans. While I think Denver's D is very good, Pittsburgh b***h slapped the hell out them only a few weeks ago. That D couldn't even hold, what, a 20 point lead? Ben to Brown is unstoppable right now. You just can't scheme Brown out of the game on D. And I think Denver's D is just a touch overrated on the back of an exceptional early showing on the back of playing some weaker opponents.
Sorry, I just go all serious amateur sports analyst when talking about this stuff...
It's not their D that was this issue in Pittsburgh, nor all year for that matter, it's been their offense. Through 16 games the Denver D had 27 drives that started on their half of the field...not many defenses are going to hold up for 12 wins under that scenario. I don't know what the statistics are on 3 and out, but I would be really surprised if Denver wasn't in the top 5 in that category on offense. Their offense was held scoreless for 3 straight second halfs and averaged 114 yards in the second half in those games (pitt being one of them).
Like I said it's not Denver's D, it's their offense putting their defense in bad situations. f**k Peyton, he's done, I'd rather have Trent Dilfer tbh, at least Dilfer didn't throw a pick six every game and rarely turned the ball over...hell he probably had a higher YPG than Manning or Osweiller this year. 289 ypg is what Denver's D is giving up, that's 15 less than the next closest team (Seattle) and that included playing the Vikings, Packers, Patriots, Steelers, Bengals, and Chiefs(x2). That's 7/16 games against playoff teams, that's not a weak schedule by any means. They went 5-2 against playoff teams, despite having a bottom feeding offense. Let's put it this way, Aaron Rodgers is having a bad year, yes, but even so he only generated a net 50 yards: 77 passing, -27 sack yardage.
You're right it probably won't be their year, it can only be 1 team out of 32 afterall, but if they lose it won't be because of their defense it'll be because of their offense.