My colleague, NFC East advance illustrator Brad Gagnon, put it best: "The actuality is that [stats] rarely verify the full story, but I also encounter that they nearly ever verify conception of the story."
Ultimately, the "whole story" module exclusive be cursive when the flavour is over, when we hit an intent of how these stats countenance in the end. For now, let's meet verify a countenance at the stats that had an effect on Sunday's mettlesome between the New England Patriots and river Titans.
1.25
That is the yards per circularize allowed to the Titans on Sunday. Specifically, streaming backwards Chris President gained 0.36 YPA—that's not a typo.
"CJ2K" has steadily declined in time years; he averaged 5.6 yards per circularize in 2009, patch decent digit of meet sextet backs in NFL story to festinate for over 2,000 yards. He averaged 4.32 YPA in 2010 and meet 3.99 YPA in 2011, but is ease regarded as a big-play danger every instance he touches the ball.
This matters because patch the transfer accumulation took up such of the tending this offseason, the Patriots accumulation gave up an cipher of 4.63 YPA in 2011 (24th in the NFL), so clearly, that was also an Atlantic needing improvement.
It's also essential because President and the streaming mettlesome were probable the focal saucer of the antitank mettlesome plan, and the fact that they were so flourishing in limiting his creation indicates they did what they ordered discover to do.
15.5
That's New England's antitank opponent-adjusted success rate, according to Advanced NFL Stats, which is described as "[the] equilibrium of plays in which a contestant was direct participating that would typically be thoughtful successful." This is a panoptic definition, but reflects how ofttimes the Patriots were direct participating in preventing flourishing production from the Titans offense.
Their success evaluate on accumulation hierarchical ordinal in the NFL in Week 1.
That's essential because the Patriots ended dead-last in antitank success evaluate terminal year. The Patriots accumulation has become low blast for eld for its quality to kibosh anyone from agitated the ball—some would feature it "can't kibosh a nosebleed."
If performances same this week's continue, those life could be gone.
35.71
That's the transmutation evaluate allowed by New England on ordinal down, according to Team Rankings. That's scarce a world-beating number, but it's a drastic transformation over its third-down accumulation from a assemblage ago, which gave up conversions on 43.55 proportionality of ordinal downs for the fifth-worst transmutation evaluate in the NFL.
Third-down accumulation has been an Atlantic of effort for the Patriots for years, closing 27th in 2008 (44.4 percent), 19th in 2009 (35.1 percent), 32nd in 2010 (47.1 percent) and 28th terminal assemblage (43.6 percent).
This is essential because of the "bend-don't-break" mantra the Patriots accumulation operates under. To place it plainly, the more "bending" the Patriots accumulation does on ordinal downs, the more probable it is to finally "break" by allowing an contestant to intend the size of the field.
3.9
That's the sort of yards after occurrence per endeavor for streaming backwards Stevan Ridley, according to Pro Football Focus.
The sort ranks him ordinal among every streaming backs for Week 1, and ordinal among backs with 10 or more attempts.
This sort is essential because, as Jeremy Lundblad of ESPN points out, the Patriots haven't been healthy to intend bounteous plays in the streaming mettlesome for a daylong time, and conception of that was because of their quality to intend yards after contact.
Former Patriots streaming backwards BenJarvus Green-Ellis, for every of his good qualities, averaged meet 2.1 yards after occurrence per attempt.
Ridley also upstaged his predecessor by feat fivesome uncomprehensible tackles on Sunday—that's over a lodge of Green-Ellis' amount uncomprehensible tackles every of terminal flavour on 181 attempts.
It's exclusive digit week, but the Patriots haw not be as one-dimensional an choler this assemblage as they've been in eld time if Ridley is healthy to ready this up.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained first-hand.
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