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Week 7 - Yards per Pass Attempt

The STAT OF THE WEEK feature highlights the one stat contributing most points to the victory.

No sunshine in San Francisco. Foggy. And so is their passing game. The home of names like QBs Steve Young and Joe Montana, and the "hands" guy WR Jerry Rice are memories.

Last week's passing game matching the 49ers and Redskins on both sides of the ball was typical of the current strengths and weaknesses of the teams. A bit much so. The graphic below pictures the weekly performance with the 49er pass D allowing the Redskins 11.5 yards per toss while throwing for only 2.6 yards.

Yards per Pass Att

Washington Redskins

2007 Week 6 through 2008 Week 11

Yards per Pass Att

San Francisco 49ers

2007 Week 6 through 2008 Week 11

Since each stat contributes some "point" value to both offense and defense the difference in these two performances cost the 49ers. How much? How about 30.4 points per game contributed to the 35-point win. That hurts.

Relative to the league the 49ers now rank last on pass D. The graphic below pictures their fall from their Super Bowl days to our '05 season.

Allowing 8.53 yards per toss is not competitive. And to continue the growing weakness they are the MOST DOWN team (-7.08 PPG, RED graphic column on the right).

And 13.37 Points per Game Behind the Leader is too great to be cured in one season.

Bud Goode, budgoode@ix.netcom.com

Opp Yds per Pass Att

Percentile Chart
100=Stongest 50=Average 0=Weakest
Lines: Playoff Avg=50 SuperBowl Avg=63
Win Mrg Points Change
Winning Margin Points Change
Sorted by Points Change, 2007 to 2008

Rank Team Pctl Stat
Value Points
behind
Leader Win Mrg
Pts Chg
vs 2007 Games
Won
1 PIT 100 4.42 0.00 1.89 7
2 TEN 87 4.86 1.61 1.34 10
3 G B 80 5.08 2.41 2.98 5
4 CAR 78 5.16 2.71 3.45 8
5 NYG 78 5.17 2.73 2.32 9
6 PHI 74 5.30 3.20 2.53 5
7 DAL 73 5.34 3.35 0.35 6
8 T B 66 5.57 4.18 -1.29 7
9 WAS 65 5.62 4.35 -0.81 6
10 BAL 61 5.76 4.85 3.83 6
11 CHI 56 5.91 5.40 1.68 5
12 BUF 51 6.08 6.02 1.28 5
13 IND 51 6.09 6.06 -3.02 6
14 CIN 51 6.09 6.07 1.69 1
15 NYJ 49 6.15 6.26 0.63 7
16 OAK 48 6.18 6.39 1.96 2
17 ATL 47 6.20 6.47 1.13 6
18 MIN 45 6.29 6.80 -0.42 5
19 ARI 44 6.33 6.91 -0.70 7
20 S F 43 6.37 7.06 -0.07 3
21 S D 42 6.40 7.19 -2.58 4
22 MIA 40 6.47 7.44 1.47 6
23 N O 38 6.53 7.66 1.90 5
24 N E 30 6.79 8.60 -5.37 6
25 DEN 29 6.82 8.70 -1.88 6
26 JAX 28 6.85 8.80 -3.47 4
27 SEA 23 7.03 9.48 -4.77 2
28 CLE 22 7.06 9.59 -3.58 4
29 HOU 20 7.12 9.79 -2.72 3
30 K C 9 7.50 11.17 -5.19 1
31 DET 0 7.80 12.26 -4.85 0
32 STL 0 7.82 12.31 -4.69 2
2008 Season, YTD through Week 11

In season 2007 49ers ranked 21st on Opp Yds per Pass Att at 6.35.
In season 2008 they ranked 20th at 6.37, down 0.1 points per game on this one stat.
From 2007 to 2008 49ers improved by 4.6 points per game on Winning Margin.