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six2stack
Other than the Green Bay Packers, all 3 other teams can run the football. That's what sticks out to me. If not for Aaron Rodgers superior QB play, it would've been 4 teams. A great QB cannot put the entire team on his shoulders. You have be able to run and stop the run at a high success rate. Of the 4 remaining teams, NE is the best at doing this and they have Tom Brady to boot. Green Bay will probably see their run fall short Monday because they don't have all the ingredients necessary.
Packers can run the ball. And are actually better than the Steelers and not that far from Falcons in terms of Run Efficiency Ratio. Packers weakness is not stopping the run but actually stopping the pass.
Run efficiency ratio
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Patriots, 3rd
Falcons, 7th
Packers, 10th
Steelers, 11th
Net Pass efficiency ratio
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Falcons, 1st
Patriots, 2nd
Steelers, 7th
Packers, 24th