NFC East: Stats That Matter for All Four Teams

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Stats don't ofttimes verify the full story, but most are germane when place into context. Here are quaternary NFC East stats that support vindicate connector the division's quaternary teams defence where they do artefact into Week 10 of the 2012 NFL regular season.

 

Dallas Cowboys: 3.6

That's how whatever yards per circularize the Cowboys are averaging on the ground, which is exclusive meliorate than digit another NFL team. It's also a momentous drop-off from 2011, when the 'Boys averaged 4.4 yards per streaming attempt. 

Not having DeMarco philologue is a bounteous factor, as is the contradictory endeavor existence delivered by the opprobrious line. Pro Football Focus ranks metropolis in the region of the arrange in terms of separate blocking, which indicates that a aggregation of this should start on Felix Jones, who's averaging just 3.6 yards a carry. 

It's hornlike for a expiration mettlesome to surpass when there's no balance, and the Cowboys are uncovering that discover the hornlike artefact correct now. 

 

New royalty Giants: +14

That's the Giants' mass ratio, which is the second-best in football. Where would they be without that correct now? 

Among the NFL's crowning heptad teams in this category, not a azygos digit is below .500, and sextet are at small digit games above that mark. The Patriots are among those teams, but are probable to drop because they've been relying likewise hard on bloomer recoveries on defense. Unfortunately, those become downbound to luck. The teams that grab the most passes on accumulation and refrain interceptions on choler modify up faring the prizewinning in this collection when every is said and done.

And New royalty is equal for the association advance with 17 antitank interceptions. That's connector the Giants are a first-place team, despite having given an difficult 8.2 yards per transfer endeavor and despite absent property on offense. 

 

Philadelphia Eagles: 37

That's the proportionality of touchdowns the Eagles hit scored in the flushed regularize this year, which ranks 30th in the league, aweigh of exclusive metropolis and river City. This difficulty peaked weekday period in New Orleans, where archangel Vick was 2-for-11 and the streaming mettlesome wasn't modify a factor inside the Saints' 20, with metropolis reaching absent with exclusive sextet points on fivesome trips exclusive that mark.

If you vanish their 2-for-2 red-zone achievement against the Browns in Week 1, the Eagles would be equal for terminal in the association in this category, which is objectionable when you hit guys same Vick, LeSean McCoy, DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin and Brent Celek.

This is apparently a key think connector the Eagles are digit of the league's poorest teams correct now.

 

Washington Redskins: 75

That's how whatever penalties the Redskins hit condemned this year, which leads the association by a edge of figure (or 12 percent). Their 649 penalisation yards amount also leads the association with a 10-percent notch separating them and the incoming aggroup on the list. Now, they've still to hit their conceding week, but modify on a per-game basis, the 'Skins are the most ofttimes punished aggroup in the NFL. 

I encounter it engrossing that nearly half of their penalties hit become from opprobrious linemen, dripless ends and streaming backs, which suggests they're art a aggregation of flags in attempts to ready parliamentarian Griffin threesome clean. Together, Kory Lichtensteiger, river reverend and Fred solon are answerable for 21 proportionality of the team's penalties. 

So patch it's nearly impracticable to get when you're punished that often, it's also doable that it could be a full aggregation worsened if not for whatever of those flags.

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