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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 876418">So, what's the difference between last year's 7th. ranked YPC team (TEN, 4.0) and the 24th. ranked team (GB, 4.7)?  The league ran the ball 13,387 times last season or 26 times per game per team.  The difference is 18 yards per game on average.  What it might be if you took out QB scrambles, a function of pass defense, along with kneel downs, is for somebody else to figure out.  7th. vs, 24th. in one thing is not the same as that difference in other things, with YPC pretty low on the list of importance in relative rankings.Clearly, you don't want to allow a one-off Mostert 220 yd. performance, with 140+ before contact, or Colin Kapernick going off for 181 yds on the ground, almost all of it before contact.  For that matter, you don't want to give up 206 yds and 3 TD on 17 plays over total clock time of 7:11 including the time your own offense held the ball.  Pettine has continued a pattern of losing playoff games on the defensive side of the ball in one-off bizarre and historic fashion.</blockquote>

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