Interpreting end of year DVOA rankings, by unit

**Ravenstatsman** · 01-02-2018, 12:58 PM

Overall offense: 21st

Rush offense: 7th
Pass offense: 26th

Overall defense: 3rd

Rush defense: 9th
Pass defense: 2nd

Special teams: 1st

It's as plain as day. This is a very good team that has been crippled by the passing offense. It's not hard to see, particularly from an objective, outside source.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/any...ls-over-ravens

We need a QB who can add something to the offense. Either some athleticism, or ability to make pre-snap reads and call audibles. Flacco has maxed out his potential is fading into irrelevance.

**HbgPARavenfan** · 01-02-2018, 01:01 PM

and yet the defense loses the game at the end, just like they do every year, in every clutch situation, in every critical game.

We all knew Joe would give us the lead in the 4th and then the defense would blow it. Its been the same story for a decade here

**Ravenstatsman** · 01-02-2018, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by HbgPARavenfan

and yet the defense loses the game at the end, just like they do every year, in every clutch situation, in every critical game.

We all knew Joe would give us the lead in the 4th and then the defense would blow it. Its been the same story for a decade here

You seem to have a problem where you interpret the plays at the end of the game as being the only plays that matter. But the score is cumulative, so things that happen in the early part of the game in fact have just as much an impact as things do at the end of the game. It just doesn't seem that way for many people who are used to assigning narratives to disconnected series of events.

**bt12483** · 01-02-2018, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by Ravenstatsman

You seem to have a problem where you interpret the plays at the end of the game as being the only plays that matter. But the score is cumulative, so things that happen in the early part of the game in fact have just as much an impact as things do at the end of the game. It just doesn't seem that way for many people who are used to assigning narratives to disconnected series of events.

You seem to have a problem where you believe the boys club circle jerk known as football outsiders is objective.

**Goode05** · 01-02-2018, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by HbgPARavenfan

and yet the defense loses the game at the end, just like they do every year, in every clutch situation, in every critical game.

We all knew Joe would give us the lead in the 4th and then the defense would blow it. Its been the same story for a decade here

This same as last year same as 14. Maybe a real NFL caliber receiving core would help?

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**Goode05** · 01-02-2018, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by Ravenstatsman

You seem to have a problem where you interpret the plays at the end of the game as being the only plays that matter. But the score is cumulative, so things that happen in the early part of the game in fact have just as much an impact as things do at the end of the game. It just doesn't seem that way for many people who are used to assigning narratives to disconnected series of events.

So where was that Vaunted dova pass d on 4th and 12??????

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**bt12483** · 01-02-2018, 01:15 PM

As a Flacco hating lemming, you of course glom onto anything that makes you feel tingly.

Do you honestly think that article is a fair accounting of the last game? It encompassed the totality of the game?

No I mention of Mixon ripping the run d.

No mention of drops.

But yet you swallow it all, like a good boy.

**Jsmoove** · 01-02-2018, 01:17 PM

lol this defense LLLLLOOOOOOSSSSSTT THE SEASON!

**bt12483** · 01-02-2018, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by Jsmoove

lol this defense LLLLLOOOOOOSSSSSTT THE SEASON!

But their dvoa against Hundley was the tits.

**HbgPARavenfan** · 01-02-2018, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ravenstatsman

You seem to have a problem where you interpret the plays at the end of the game as being the only plays that matter. But the score is cumulative, so things that happen in the early part of the game in fact have just as much an impact as things do at the end of the game. It just doesn't seem that way for many people who are used to assigning narratives to disconnected series of events.

its literally the same story every year at this point

Offense give us the lead with 1-2:10 seconds left in the 4th... The unit that is by design not supposed to score more than 17, yet they always do.

We put our faith in the xX_EL1T3_Y0L0_36o_NoSc0p3_42o_Xx Defense to get 1 stop.... and what happens.... they go limp under pressure, generate no pass rush and we lose.

its not an exaggeration, its not even a meme anymore, its just scientific fact.

Water is Wet
Sky is Blue
Ozzie Cant draft WR
Flacco gives us the lead with the season on the line, The defense loses it

**BcRaven** · 01-02-2018, 01:22 PM

After I blatantly insulted DVOA, I was told it meant Don't Voice Opinion Again.
So I won't since everyone knows I think it's B.S. (do I have to translate that?) ... Bc

**Ravenstatsman** · 01-02-2018, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Jsmoove

lol this defense LLLLLOOOOOOSSSSSTT THE SEASON!

The defense failed in the last game of the season, but Flacco and the offense failed the season overall.

Amazing that a 3rd ranked unit gets all the blame and the 26th ranked unit gets all the credit. People will just confirm their biases when they watch.

Do people realize how dumb they sound? So if the Orioles offense score the fewest runs in the league, and the pitching staff allows the fewest, and on the last day of the regular season the pitching staff gets shelled and the offense goes off, but the Orioles lose the game and miss the playoff, you blame the pitching staff?

Or only if the offense is white and the pitching staff is black?