Anybody with time in their hands?

[LUUUUUKE]

Time on their hands* fat fingers/iPhone typing don't mesh

I don't have the time, but would love if someone could do some research and get some metrics of our Hardy"less" D. Something like # of runs directly to his side, and rushing yds per game with and without him in the lineup.

I know that we're sucking on D, and it may be hard or impossible to project how much his absense is really costing us.

There just hasn't been a legitimate piece written in regards to how badly we are missing him, and a direct link to what we're experiencing on D and him not being in the field. Again I'm not sure if this is possible, because our secondary is completely different this year.

Maybe someone can research sacks/pressures by our front 7 last year at this juncture to this year. Maybe that's a better metric. Also tackles or plays for loss by our front 7 as opposed to this year.

Just shooting this CHALLENGE out there to anybody who would have the time. I'm sure many if us would PIE whomever accepts.

At worst, we'll have some statistics to look at instead of the garbage by everyone else other than Jeremy and Teeray at this point.

[OriginalPantherDan]

It's also possible that the management lost the respect of the defense with their treatment of the Hardy situation. Hard to play for coaches with flip/flopping, spineless constitutions. The D may just be saying, Screw this place...they don't care about us.

[LUUUUUKE]

It's also possible that the management lost the respect of the defense with their treatment of the Hardy situation. Hard to play for coaches with flip/flopping, spineless constitutions. The D may just be saying, Screw this place...they don't care about us.

There's about 5 other threads already expressing your sentiments. Go post there.

This is for whomever has the time to do some stat checking. Even then that person should create their own thread

[PantherFeez]

PFF tracks in detail which gaps RB's run through. I would assume more times than not they would run behind their best run blockers vs targeting Hardy's old spot exclusively. I summed up based on what PFF says, but I am not going to dive into each team's trend to figure out where they run most. Context > Numbers so keep that in mind.

 

Bucs: evenly spread

Lions: 50% edges but they ran poorly against us

Steelers: 50% left and right of the LG and right of the C, and 30% on the edges

Ravens: 18/30 runs up the middle

Bears: 50% on the edges

Bengals:  3:5 ratio from the center to left (basically evenly spread)

Packers: 10 runs on the left side of the line, 14 runs to the right, so pretty even

[MurkN]

 

[LUUUUUKE]

How about pressures/TFL/sacks comparing this year to last year?

It's surprising to see opposing offenses gash us at a thought Defensive strength. It seems as though our DTs are being abused, which is kind of shocking. Especially since we're healthy at the position and so are our LBers. I wasn't expecting the metrics to show this but the two long runs were up the middle.

Hardy's absense doesn't seen to be the issue on run D. Although, if he were to get penetration which he often did, he could be* disrupting these big gains. Very hard to say with certainty though

[PantherFeez]

Very nice site, definitely bookmarking that. I think there's nothing that showing teams are running towards Horton now that Hardy is gone and overall our defense isn't producing like it was last year. There's not an individual "ah-hah" stat, instead it's a trickle down effect of our D line lacking pass rush and being run on more than last year.

[WUnderhill]

 

 

Those averages running at our DTs are depressing after feeling like we finally had the position fixed for the foreseeable future. What's going on with those guys?