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With the interception streak likely to be focsed on ad nauseam this week, how about a look about the bigger and more important picture----from "Today's Pigskin", the relationship of turnovers to winning a game:

 

Turnovers/Wins

 

0 turnovers: .789 winning percentage
1 turnover: .575
2 turnovers: .390
3 turnovers: 260
4 turnovers: .178
5 or more turnovers: .056*

 

The site notes Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers were perfect in games where they didn’t turn the ball over in 2014.

 

So, it's not just Rodgers not throwing interceptions, it's the lack of fumbles that is as important.  Which, is no doubt, why MM has such a short leash in a game on a back that fumbles.

 

http://www.todayspigskin.com/f...urnovers-in-the-nfl/

 

 

 

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very cool, thanks for posting that one

 

The Packers have been at their best when their DBs are taking the ball away in bunches.

GB is very good on both sides of the turnover equation and are unstoppable when they get extra possessions for this offense

Originally Posted by YATittle:

Waiting for the ball-hawking DBs that we saw in training camp to get lots of takeaways in the games....

Agree, but I guess that's why they are DB's and not WR's. I saw some opportunities that went through their hands and dropped. I expect that denying the pass comes first and getting the interception is the next job for a DB.

The other stat that correlates most highly with winning is "average yards gained per pass attempt". In the first four weeks of this season no team has won both of these categories (trunover differential & AYGPPA) & lost the game, I think there have been approximately 24 games in which this has happened.

Originally Posted by YATittle:

Waiting for the ball-hawking DBs that we saw in training camp to get lots of takeaways in the games....

You'll probably be waiting quite a while for many. Interceptions are down league-wide the last few years. Rivers and Cutler only threw 18 last year to lead the league, where there used to be multiple guys throwing well over 20 every season.

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