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Was looking at Red Zone stats and found the following nugget

San Diego is the best team in the league (#1) at not allowing the other team to reach its Red Zone.
It has only allowed 17 drives to reach their red zone in 8 games. (2.1 per game)
However on those 17 red zone drives they have allowed 14 TD's. Worst in the league (#32)
And worst by a long margin 82.3% to 68.4 for the next worst

Miami is tied for the best at reaching the other teams red zone with Indy (4.6 per game)
A lot of that has to do with the league leading 8 drives started in the red zone due to defense special teams.

So there is one of your defining battles for the game. Getting in the red zone. If we get there we should be successful.
But getting there may prove to be difficult. Need some turnovers to keep this rolling...
 
I thought I saw that the Chargers also have a pretty bad red zone offense but I may have missed that stat...saw it on NFL network in passing...it wasn't up long.
 
i think they were talking about the chargers offensive red zone woes during the broncos game last thursday night
 
Albert Romano said:
Yes here are some stats as of 10/22..

RED ZONE OFFENSE (based on TD percentage)
Chargers: 17th (14-of-25, 56.0 percent)

http://espn.go.com/blog/san-diego-chargers/post/_/id/7780/stat-check-red-zone-scoring-still-an-issue
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They have improved since then

Rank Team 2014
1 Denver 82.61%
2 Atlanta 76.47%
3 Oakland 72.73%
4 Kansas City 69.57%
5 Chicago 69.23%
6 Dallas 65.38%
7 Tampa Bay 65.00%
8 Green Bay 64.52%
9 NY Giants 62.96%
10 Cleveland 61.54%
11 San Diego 60.71%

we are 17th on defending the red zone. So if they make there they will probably score just like us.
 
Fins1971 said:
They have improved since then

Rank Team 2014
1 Denver 82.61%
2 Atlanta 76.47%
3 Oakland 72.73%
4 Kansas City 69.57%
5 Chicago 69.23%
6 Dallas 65.38%
7 Tampa Bay 65.00%
8 Green Bay 64.52%
9 NY Giants 62.96%
10 Cleveland 61.54%
11 San Diego 60.71%

we are 17th on defending the red zone. So if they make there they will probably score just like us.
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oh if trusnicks starting at mike they are gonna score...no doubt about that
 
Didn't realize that Trusnick was playing for the Jets when we won our last division title. That is a long time ago.
 
I know a big deal has been made about who we've played and how we're beating up on bad teams. So is San Diego. The combined records of the 5 teams they beat are 11-27. They beat Seattle in San Diego and we all know Seattle can't play away from home (they've beat 3-5 Washington and 3-5-1 Carolina) and they've beat Buffalo with Manuel at QB...probably their most impressive win (22-10). Their other wins are Jacksonville (33-14), the Jets (31-0) and Oakland (31-28...was Sparano's first game as interim coach and more than double what Oakland was averaging points wise).
 
datruth55 said:
I know a big deal has been made about who we've played and how we're beating up on bad teams. So is San Diego. The combined records of the 5 teams they beat are 11-27. They beat Seattle in San Diego and we all know Seattle can't play away from home (they've beat 3-5 Washington and 3-5-1 Carolina) and they've beat Buffalo with Manuel at QB...probably their most impressive win (22-10). Their other wins are Jacksonville (33-14), the Jets (31-0) and Oakland (31-28...was Sparano's first game as interim coach and more than double what Oakland was averaging points wise).
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It's crazy how many of the same opponents we will end up with by the end of the year. We really need to win this game to have a shot at the post season. I just don't see how we can make it if we lose to KC and SD. We will lose any tiebreaker that we end up in at the end of the year unless we win this game. We also HAVE to win the Buffalo game. That KC game really hurt.
 
datruth55 said:
I know a big deal has been made about who we've played and how we're beating up on bad teams. So is San Diego. The combined records of the 5 teams they beat are 11-27. They beat Seattle in San Diego and we all know Seattle can't play away from home (they've beat 3-5 Washington and 3-5-1 Carolina) and they've beat Buffalo with Manuel at QB...probably their most impressive win (22-10). Their other wins are Jacksonville (33-14), the Jets (31-0) and Oakland (31-28...was Sparano's first game as interim coach and more than double what Oakland was averaging points wise).
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So we both have played Buffalo, Oakland and the Jags. We are 2-1 and they are 3-0. Hopefully our home field will make the difference. They have a very good team, but maybe we can pull this one out.
 
KTOWNFINFAN said:
It's crazy how many of the same opponents we will end up with by the end of the year. We really need to win this game to have a shot at the post season. I just don't see how we can make it if we lose to KC and SD. We will lose any tiebreaker that we end up in at the end of the year unless we win this game. We also HAVE to win the Buffalo game. That KC game really hurt.
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+1, and expect a desperate team for a win in SD coming in- much like KC was at the time..IMO.
 
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