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After facing the mighty FSU offense we dropped down 11 spots to #100 in the nation for defensive stop rate. The fighting Banda's pulling away as Utah St is up to #64

Certainly wasn't defending our defense. I said I would give some concession to the overall ranking due to playing good offenses (which is only fair) but clearly stated 89th is not acceptable under any circumstances. It was more the opposite of defending our defense. This metric takes a lot of...

Thats why I like stop rate, it doenst care how you get there and it eliminates other stats and excuses. You know what, if your defense needs dropped passes and mistakes to succeed fine. Then you better be able to find a way to magically make that happen consistently in every single game or dont...

Interesting article in The Athletic about defensive stop rates (percentage of drives that end in downs, turnovers or punts). No metric is perfect but I like this one for grading an overall defensive performance. Prioritizes the end result that really matters (points given up) but doesn't get...