SoCalSeahawk
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Looking at the defensive DVOA for our likely playoff opponents, it is clear that throwing to our TEs and RBs should be a significant part of our game plan for the entirety of the post season. DVOA Rankings v. TEs are as follows, Detroit 29th, Atlanta 15th and Dallas 30th. Against RBs in the passing game the DVOAs are Detroit 29th, Atlanta 27th and Dallas 20th. Detroit and Atlanta are also terrible against slot WRs ranked 32nd and 29th. Actually, Detroit has the worst passing defense in the league and it's really not even close. There is no excuse to not move the ball at will against them.
As far as defense v. the running game, Detroit is 22nd, Atlanta 28th and Dallas 8th. More importantly for us though is who gets the majority of the carries. Thomas Rawls has been stuffed on 14.7% of his carries this year as opposed to Prosise and Collins at 6.7% and 6.5%. Same o-line, but much different results. Those stuffs have been drive killers for this offense. For comparison, last year Marshawn was getting stuffed at a 17% rate because he was simply not right and it showed as the offense was frustratingly inconsistent. Enter Rawls who took over and was stuffed on only 6.1% of his carries and the offense looked downright epic. Right now it appears that Rawls is just not completely healthy and it is limiting his ability to get through initial contact and the offense is once again very frustrating to watch. Perhaps we see Collins as the starter against Detroit and at some point during the post season we get CJ Prosise back. Maybe, just maybe, it will only take a moderate improvement in the running game to spark this offense.
Rawls appears to be a hinderance at this point, so hopefully we see more Alex Collins in the run game and more Marcel Reece in the passing game. But without a doubt we should see a lot more Jimmy and Luke, and maybe an occassional target to Nick Vannett or Brandon Williams as well. If Prosise is able to practice the next two weeks and be ready for Atlanta that would be a huge boost for the offense.
Go Hawks!
DVOA
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef
Stuff
https://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stat ... tage/2016/
As far as defense v. the running game, Detroit is 22nd, Atlanta 28th and Dallas 8th. More importantly for us though is who gets the majority of the carries. Thomas Rawls has been stuffed on 14.7% of his carries this year as opposed to Prosise and Collins at 6.7% and 6.5%. Same o-line, but much different results. Those stuffs have been drive killers for this offense. For comparison, last year Marshawn was getting stuffed at a 17% rate because he was simply not right and it showed as the offense was frustratingly inconsistent. Enter Rawls who took over and was stuffed on only 6.1% of his carries and the offense looked downright epic. Right now it appears that Rawls is just not completely healthy and it is limiting his ability to get through initial contact and the offense is once again very frustrating to watch. Perhaps we see Collins as the starter against Detroit and at some point during the post season we get CJ Prosise back. Maybe, just maybe, it will only take a moderate improvement in the running game to spark this offense.
Rawls appears to be a hinderance at this point, so hopefully we see more Alex Collins in the run game and more Marcel Reece in the passing game. But without a doubt we should see a lot more Jimmy and Luke, and maybe an occassional target to Nick Vannett or Brandon Williams as well. If Prosise is able to practice the next two weeks and be ready for Atlanta that would be a huge boost for the offense.
Go Hawks!
DVOA
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef
Stuff
https://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stat ... tage/2016/