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Originally Posted by SNR
You're the one who wields that YPC stat like it has any kind of meaning.
The issue of teams "cracking" Sutton's scheme (as overblown as you're making it out to be with their performances against the Texans and Browns) is a different conversation.
If that's what you want to talk about, then why do you keep bringing up YPC?
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Originally Posted by SNR
Also, why are the Chiefs destined to regress because teams are working around Sutton's scheme? ALL teams play within a scheme. Just because this is a particularly aggressive one doesn't mean other coaches and their playbooks aren't susceptible to the same issues.
And yet, some defenses like the 2010 Packers and the 2011 Giants seem to get better as the season goes on.
I wonder why that is. Shouldn't they regress?
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The gap in YPC and YPA is a huge clue that this defense is thriving due to scheme and not talent. As I have said probably 5 times. That's why I keep bringing up YPC.
The aggressiveness is precisely what smart QBs and OCs will take advantage of. I don't know why the Giants or Packers improved, but I would guess their situations had very little to do with KC's current situation. For a team that was very similar in a lot of ways, look at the 2009 Broncos.