14.8 points per game

[dkmightyhammer]

I just read an article that said barring a miracle the NFL will set a record for most points scored this year. With that in mind our 14.8 pts allowed per game becomes even more impressive. In a league where receivers and QBs are protected beyond anything that would be considered reasonable our Defense has thrived. Can you imagine how much better this squad would be if they didn't need to worry that every time they touched the QB they were going to get a flag? Our DB's get accused of grabbing and holding all the time but it wasn't all that long ago that what they are doing now would have been child's play. The DB's in the 70's, 80's and 90's could lower the boom and just about kill receivers. Nowadays DB's almost have to allow the receiver to catch the ball before lightly placing them on the ground.

Anyways, that was a long way to go to say I'm very impressed with our Defense in this age of 5000 yard passers and 50 td seasons.

 

[Cloud]

The NFL also set the record for most points scored in a single week couple of weeks ago. To think, we shut the Giants down that day.

 

[dude82]

It's been an impressive run. We had the top scoring defense in the league last year and we're a tenth of a point per game (and one point overall) behind Carolina with one game to be played from having the top scoring defense again. On top of that, we're on pace to have the best pass defense and best overall defense in the league, from a yards standpoint, as well. Such a big turnaround from even Carroll's first season when we really couldn't stop anybody on defense.