Is it really necessary that you make up so much bullshit in every one of your posts? Peyton has never faced a defense as good as the Seahawks? Reaaaaalllyyy? You actually believe that?
smh
Is it really necessary for you to be ignorant of everything football other than Peyton Manning's jockstrap odor?
I'm not denying the fact that Seattle does have a great defense. But there have been so many great defenses over the past decade+ that it's just silly to make a statement like that.
Why do they have to be better? Why can't the be on par or damn close? The Steelers defenses in the 2000's were great, Ravens and Pats like you mentioned, the Jets had some great defenses too. And then there was the Bears defense Peyton played in the Super Bowl. Great defenses have come and gone over the years, and Peyton has certainly played against them.
There has been one better
pass defense in the NFL since the
merger. That defense does in fact happen to be the 2002 Buccaneers - a team Peyton did not play against.
http://www.footballperspective.com/putting-the-2013-seahawks-pass-defense-in-perspective/
That means Seattle allowed 2.79 fewer ANY/A than the average team this year: that’s better than every defense since 1990 other than the 2002 Bucs.
Next, I calculated the Z-Score for each pass defense. The Z-Score simply tells us how many standard deviations from average a pass defense was. The standard deviation of the 32 pass defenses in 2013 was 0.95, which means the Seahawks were 2.93 standard deviations above average. That’s the 4th best of any defense since 1950.
You can probably guess which team has the top rating. In 2002, Tampa Bay faced 510 pass attempts, allowed 2,490 net passing yards and 10 touchdowns, while creating 31 interceptions and 43 sacks. Tampa Bay’s defense allowed just 2.34 ANY/A, while the average of the other 31 teams was 5.50. That means those Buccaneers were 3.11 ANY/A better than average. Since the standard deviation among the 32 teams that year was 0.93, they gives the Bucs a Z-Score of 3.33.
It doesn't matter that Peyton played against "many
good defenses" when assessing the factuality of best. Incidentally, those "good defenses" he played against, particularly the Pats and Steelers, have plenty of hardware to show for their excellence.....unlike Peyton. And that Bears defense made Manning look rather pedestrian. It was Grossman that lost the Super Bowl, while Manning put in a rather Roflsberger performance.
So back to the point: No, the Seattle (pass) defense isn't the best in this century, but it is the 2nd best in the last 40 years or so, and 5th best ever. Seattle's run defense is stout but not historically good, but that doesn't really matter either for this era or against Manning.
The Bowman injury was one of the most cringeworthy I've ever seen, and it was his own teammate doing that pisspoor "throw my body" technique that caused it. I would imagine that play will result in changes to review rules for turnovers.
I freaking loved last nights game though, with the exception of the multitude of flags. Football needs to look closer to that than a Manning-Brees Air-a-Thon.
Oh Dakryn.
