Complied from the last 5 games from each team.
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Points allowed.
Bengals 16.8 (Bengals played 2 of 5 at home.
Chiefs 18.2 (Played 3 of 5 at home.
Eagles. 20.6 (played 3 of 5 at home.
SF. 20.6 (Played 4 of last 5 at home.
Bengals played 3 away games and still had the best numbers.
SF was the only team with 4 home games and matched points allowed with Philly, who played one less home game.
Chiefs were 2nd but had three teams score 20 or more.
Philly allowed 3 teams with 20 or more but played 2 games of the 5 without Hurts. Which is why they have the edge and are second in my order.
I respect the opinion but geez man. If this is the angle then why not consider bengals past 5 games were vs
Ravens twice with no QB
Patriots
Bucs
Bills
Overall the Ravens and Bucs and Patriots were bland on offense and bottom of league. Stats could say Patriots are 5th in ppg but if that comes off the back of 3 40pt games and 9 defensive TDS etc it inflated n hides the fact the patriots are not a high scoring team off play style and personnel.
The Bucs were marching up n down The filed on Cin. In the first half. Probably because the D plays so much drop 8. Gives QBs more time to pass. Vs a guy like Tom it’s beneficial. He prefers pocket time. The Bucs opened the second half fumble fumble int fumble int literally in first 3 plays each series. The way they did it wasn’t because Cin created them otherwise I’d give credit where it’s due. Just fluke shit.
You could do the same for any 4 teams left. Phi D shut down Giants 3rd stringers. Giants rally late vs Phi soft D almost on side kick for shot to win. SF gets rolled up on by raiders in game they went into not too focused not much relevance. You can imply several scenarios to either side for each team many ways. Mostly subjective stuff I’d say.
Point is you can cherry pick so many angles to support what you want to believe. The Bengals are a good defense no doubt.
I’ve argued this for years. I call it the Tebow effect. The more points an offense scores consistently the worse a D looks stat wise.
Denver had the best D with Tebow. All the rave it was the D not Tebow to why they won. Nobody feared the Broncos offense thus on offense they became conservative. Games tighten up. Broncos O didn’t score much thus D didn’t give up much. As teams didn’t need to score much
Enter the sheriff the next year. That same D given up 13 ppg now gives up 24ppg. Because the offense is now scoring 35 ppg.
Point is stats don’t tell the real story. See it all the time a team up 21 yet on D they then play differently. And on offense they play differently. Up 21 in 3rd and end of game win by 7. However they won comfortably. D goes softer allowing yards in exchange for time. Scoreboard may say different than the field.