Interesting stat

[themunn]

The give and pull of NFL numbers.

Do the Packers have the 5th easiest? Or are they so good they rack up yards against teams no matter who they are playing?

Just like the strength of schedule math. The 0-16 Browns had a high strength of schedule because they added 16 wins to their opponent's schedule.

You can do that with strength of schedule because it works based on wins, so obviously a team that goes 16-0 vs a team that goes 0-16 is going to skew the SOS of their opponents heavily.

However, if you go by passer rating, the Packers were #1 offense, and Seahawks #6. If you go by yards, Packers were #11, Seahawks #13.

So when you compare the strength of passing defense, neither team massively skews the ranking against when compared to the other - it's not like comparing the SoS 14-2 Chiefs to 2-14 Jaguars, but more like... the 13-3 Packers to the 12-4 Seahawks.

So the fact that we played the #3 most difficult slate of passing defense has nothing to do with the fact that we played against them - because we were still ranked number 6. If anything our play will have skewed this DOWN from #2 or #1 rather than the other direction.