Found this and posted on the Eagle Commander game thread by figured it was worth its own topic.
Interesting article about what the article calls Total Missed Points Due to Injury. Not sure how the math works but it’s pretty interesting to see where the Eagles, Commanders, Bills and Chiefs compared to the Lions.
Total missed points due to injury: (thru week 16)
Commanders: 34
Eagles: 46
Chiefs: 47
Bills: 55
Lions: 158.
Next closest playoff team: Tampa 136, Steelers 109.
I can NOT wait until we’re fully healthy next year.
I thought we would be okay so long as we kept Goff, Sewell, and Decker healthy.
Turn out we lost Hutchinson and 13 other to I.R. Wonder what Vegas would would have put those odds at
To me, this number says we should be surprised to have won the division and to make the playoffs.
This is why I think DC deserves coach of the year. Most teams would have folded. We won 15 games.
How much is water wet ? How up is the sky?
I have never, in my life, seen anything like what happened to the Lions this year. I was just like is this curse so deep that Harry and Peyton dunking a helmet in a bathtub of whiskey didn’t even scratch the surface. Holmes flexed on this league and turned a doormat into an absolute juggernaut and Satan was just like oh ya watch this. Sickening. It makes me very sad…but maybe it needed to happen to keep Holmes and co motivated. If we stay healthy we are going to donkey f—k this league
Not so high if you’re tripping on purple haze, apparently.
to me with a fully healthy and thriving team, nobody would-have stopped us and we would-have went to a SB.
Let’s say we don’t have a defense . But 5 turn
overs in offense with no major injuries in offense .That’s poor vision
I just don’t buy the argument that it’s not the defenses fault because the offense knew they were crap, and knew they needed to put up 40-50 points and didn’t. Commanders had 481 yards of total offense.
A lot. Because better players score more/prevent scoring.
See, I can be a NFL analyst writer too.
Here, let’s do another one!
How many ■■■■■ does Jerrah give about complaints about his coaching hires and contract negotiating?
None, because
Gimme dat Pulitzer
Lions only had 10 pressures and 0 sacks while blitzing almost every down.
Philly had 3 sacks and nearly 20 pressures with almost never blitzing
That just tells you everything you need to know how dead our DL was
I heard breaking legs, arms, and jaws is pretty painful. Probably hurt them a lot.
They need some milk!
Thanks to the OP – its nice to see another objective metric on this besides # on the IR.
We won’t be. I’ll settle for mid-pack!
All it takes next year is an injury to Goff and we are cooked, so…
this is why super bowl windows are so small and tight. (just the way we like it AMIRITE)
and yes our injuries were ridiculous.
however, this also nails why your coaching staff can’t completely screw a game up like they did in the playoffs, 2 years in a row. watching the eagles run right over the redskins was infuriating when we were doing the same thing but decided it was too easy or something.
If healthy we had by far the best roster in the league this season.
You’ll never convince me that Ben Johnson wasn’t “checked out” for the playoff game. It’s just human nature. I’m sure I would have been as well if I was in his shoes. Huge pay raise, need to hire a coaching staff, move family and so on.
It’s like yea it’s great if we beat the commanders but if we lose I can accept the job and get to work. He knew all along he wanted the Bears job. It was leaked that’s the job he wanted last year.
While I expect better luck in general next year I do think we need to be prepared for OL injuries. Felt like we were fairly healthy in that regard last year.
