Defense is a huge issue but the turnovers is causing the most pain, as they have seriously ramped up after Goffs streak ended.
Want to know why the abysmal Steelers offense still has a 6-4 record? Their differential is +11(#1)… Tied for 3rd most takeaways and tied for 1st fewest in turnovers.
Teams like the Pats, Cardinals, Panthers, Giants and Packers do a better job of protecting the ball than us which is crazy.
Takeaways? We don’t get many (bottom 7) our line doesn’t pressure enough to cause poor throws. Our defensive scheme allows too many easy passes in the middle. We should however be getting more fumbles as we are some of the best at getting tackles for loss on RBs…
Hope this changes
Tied with the Chiefs, Browns, Miami, and Tennessee.
You can dive a bit more into it. Fumbles (both give and take) are more random than INTs (both give and take). Although there’s still a bunch of variance.
Which is a long way of saying that this major factor in football games (Teams that are +3 TO differential win 90% of their games) is more random than not.