Yds Allowed - 2nd Half Drives

A graphic showing yards allowed by Steelers defense in the second half of games. An obvious deterioration in the last couple of weeks but the cracks were forming even in the MIN game.

Disturbing; teams are stampeding out of the gate in the second half and the defense is surrendering.

YARDS ALLOWED IN 2nd HALF



[note: "drive"= drive# assigned to possessing team]

 

IMO Tomlin thinks the game is in hand when it's not. I think it was Cowher who stressed 60 minute men. Tomlin is like 45 minutes at best

 

What do the colors even mean? 33yards is light red, but 34 is light green. And isn’t the color-coding backwards? Where’s this from?

 

Yeah, I think the colors seem to represent positives for the driving team, which I thought was backward as well. But it looks like it's divided up every ten yards, with red being the least yards allowed, moving from red, to pink, to lighter pink, then to light green, up until darker green being the most yards allowed.

 

Maybe it depends if they have score a FG,TD or not?

 

EDIT: I see my error. In the OP I should have titled "2nd Half Yds Gained" (offense perspective). Then the color scale makes sense. (hey, it was early morning when I threw it together)

All data is from NFL pbp. Color scaled from the possessing team's perspective (yards gained). Each column (game) is color-scaled independently from worst to best drive in the half.

If you prefer the reverse (defense's perspective):

2nd HALF YARDS ALLOWED

 

I get that you might be fishing for positives in a sea of negative but it's as bad as it looks. In the last two games the opponent has scored on every 2nd half possession except one.

 

It's been my opinion that I don't care how many yards the other team gets. Did they score?
We can be dead last in the NFL in yards allowed, but top 10 defense in points allowed, and I'm usually still happy.


The yards don't beat you. The points beat you. This is why we lost vs the Packers. We got FGs, they got TDs. It really is that simple.

 

Points are most important, but if you're allowing tons of yards, the opposing team is also likely controlling the TOP, which limits your own offense's opportunities to score points. Bad all around, for sure.

 

Its called half time adjustments.

 

The steelers are in bottom 3 in yards per drive,time of possession per drive that the defense are on the field and play per drive....The only reason they are not worst in PPG are because the turnovers the pats had in the red zone and the pathetic Browns offense

Still 25th in point per drive against and you make a great point that the offense have fewer opportunity because of their sorry defense

 

This is true, however depending on the teams you play…

1. if you give up a ton of yards but not points eventually the good teams will score tds.

2. if you’re giving up a ton of yards it usually means the defense is on the field longer. Means less time we can score obviously.

ultimately you’re right about the points, it’s just eventually giving up so many yards can bite you in the end.

 

Fair point about yards but we know that the yards are leading to points against this defense. In a given game, yards might not be the full story, but over multiple games it certainly paints the quality of the team, offense or defense.