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Originally Posted by Keith
I'll give you Manning and Brees' performances as being normal for them. Brees especially in 2011 was just in an amazing groove that season, and the Texans defense was just in its third game under Phillips.
Brady, Rodgers, and Luck though put up some of their best performances of 2012 against the Texans defense.
Brady threw for 4 TDs against the Texans in Dec (and 3 more on Sunday). He threw 4 TDs in a single game just one other time this season (that weird London game against the Rams). His passer rating in the December game was 125.4, 29 points higher than his season average. It was 115 on Sunday, 25 points higher than his career playoff average. You mention the 49er game... as if the Texans could hold the Pats to 10 points through the first three quarters. Perhaps the 49er defense took their foot off the gas late in the 3rd quarter up 31-3?
Rodgers threw for 6 TDs against the Texans in Dec. It was a career high. His passer rating of 133.8 was 29 points higher than his season average.
Andrew Luck had a 4:0 TD:INT ratio and passer ratings of 95.6 and 96.0 in his two games against the Texans, both numbers 20 points higher than his season average. Take away the two Texans games, and his TD:INT ratio was 19:18.
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In the Indy games, they scored 38 offensive points (not counting the KR TD). That is 19 points a game. That is less than we allowed on average and less than they scored on average. If either the offense or special teams is average in the 2nd game than our defense plays well enough to sweep them. Our defense against Luck was solid.
Rodgers and Brady killed us. They kill just about everyone. Specific to our defense, they are going to eat up man coverage unless they are under heavy pressure. We were not very good at rushing the QB this year. Barwin and Reed combined for 5.5 sacks and Mercilous had 6 in about %10 of the snaps they played. We need an edge pass rush or we will continue to struggle with the elite offenses.