Actually my friend, you are choosing the 4 worst games out of 10 and pointing to that story. That’s no better than if I chose the 4 best games and pointed to that as the true story. The stats can’t be skewed by six good games that are close to the average; if anything, those four bad games are what are skewing the stats since four is less than six.
In reality neither instance of cherry picking tells the true story which is why the average in this case is best since all defenses have fluctuations.
They are 4th in opponent offensive points per game and 6th in yards per game. Last year at this time, they were somewhere around 6th or 7th in opponent offensive points per game and 23rd in yards per game. In fact, last year you were using that 23rd ranking in ypg to argue with me that the D wasn’t very good.
Then as now, my bottom line is points per game that the D itself actually allowed. That’s the same measurement by which we judge offenses.
Frankly, I’m surprised that the D is better because I predicted it would be worse.
