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    The Debrief, Week 1: Low-scoring start sign of defensive trend?

    Week 1 of the 2017 NFL season was for your uncle who insists pro football was better in the 1970s. Rampaging defensive lines took center stage, leaving quarterbacks to play supporting roles.

    Ben Roethlisberger was rusty. Cam Newton's throws were erratic. Joe Flacco looked like he missed most of training camp with a back injury. None of these QBs' teams topped 300 yards on offense, yet they all came out victorious because of dominant performances by their defenses.

    Any swing toward defense is uncommon in today's NFL. Seven teams failed to score in double-digits, tying for the most of any week since 2011. When the Broncos blocked Chargers kicker Younghoe Koo's game-tying field goal attempt before midnight on Monday, the Chargers officially became the fourteenth offense -- or 46 percent of the league -- to be held under 300 yards in Week 1. That's a higher percentage than any week of the 2016 season. (For comparison, only 22 percent of teams were kept under 300 yards over the previous three Week 1s combined.)

    To put it another way: Only one team averaged under 300 yards per game on offense a season ago. So roughly half the NFL in Week 1 resembled the 2016 Rams offense.


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    Re: The Debrief, Week 1: Low-scoring start sign of defensive trend?

    The refs were throwing laundry to keep the score down and only AB and JJ showed up in the Steelers' offense. I still don't know why they didn't hand the ball to Connor more often?
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