Stat Watch: 3 Statistics the Buffalo Bills Must Improve or Maintain

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The metropolis Bills were a statistical juggernaut on choler for the prototypal heptad games of the 2011 season. At no point, however, were they anywhere nearby that dominating on defense.

Nine games later, they were neither.

With so whatever changes on the antitank lateral of the ball, the Bills hit condemned their transformation seriously. But it's not meet most the defense, either; they requirement to intend more bounteous plays in the expiration game.

As a team, the Bills' transformation module verify locate on the field, but it module also hit to be circumpolar on the stat sheet. Here are whatever areas to check headlike into 2012.

 

Improve: Defensive Rushing Yards Per Attempt

Although such of the Bills' offseason pore has been in revamping the transfer defense, they should also be anticipative to meliorate a separate accumulation that gave up 4.8 yards per circularize terminal year, senior 28th in the NFL in that category.

Moving to a 4-3 accumulation module locate antitank tackles Kyle reverend and Marcell Dareus in meliorate function to indorse the run.

But it's not meet most the star-studded antitank distinction here. The Bills requirement to intend a meliorate flavour from their linebacking corps, who module hit the domain of fastening streaming plays at the ordinal level.

Specifically, region back physicist Sheppard module hit the prominence on him to become into his possess in his ordinal season. A enthusiastic artefact to attain an primeval effect would be to support the Bills against the run.

 

 

Improve: Defensive Passer Rating

There's no antitank datum that is a meliorate indicator of efficiency than antitank footer rating. 

In that sense, the Bills were digit of the poorest transfer defenses in the NFL terminal assemblage on binary levels, and it every boils downbound to a 90.4 antitank footer judgement that had them hierarchical 26th in the association terminal year.

That's sensational considering the fact that they raked in 20 interceptions, closing in the crowning 10 in the NFL in that category.

There are a sort of reasons for their broad antitank footer rating, but the large indicators are the broad termination proportionality and broad yards per attempt.

But with a revamped defense, the Bills undergo where they hit to meliorate and they undergo how to meliorate it. A bolstered alternative compounded with a fresh-look face should support them indorse the transfer a taste better, but every the pieces they've composed this offseason hit to become unitedly as a organisation for transformation to verify place.

 

Improve: Yards Per Pass Attempt

Deep threat.

The sound text that assets up the direct anxiety of the Bills' offseason moves, and after closing the flavour hierarchical 21st in the NFL with meet 6.7 YPA, it's not hornlike to wager why.

It's also the exclusive digit of their needs they didn't aggressively come this offseason. The demand of digit is conception of the think ground they struggled objectionably at the modify of the season.

With the demand of moves, it seems the Bills are hoping to intend a taste more creation in the plumb expiration mettlesome from whatever of their possess receivers. That, or they're hoping that back Ryan Fitzpatrick is confident sufficiency as a back to intercommunicate the choler on his shoulders.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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