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This post is a continuation of yesterdays post “The Best NFL Offenses and Defenses of the past eleven years”. In today’s post I will expand on being the best of the best on offense or defense.

Best Offense and Best Defense

   The Best Offense and Best Defense page on Pro Football Ranking.com takes the teams that scored 100 or less in the PFR.com True Total Offense and Defense method only. Remember the lowest score is the best.

  This page is all about how the Best of the Best fared as far as the playoffs are concerned. One in the most interesting things you will find here is that having a great Offense or a great defense does not mean that you will automatically be in the playoffs.

In fact you might not even get into the playoffs.

   This informative page not only uses the PFR.com Offense, Defense, and Total Scores, it also includes the strength of schedule for each team. Here you can see how far being the best allows your team to go in the playoffs, if you even are in the playoffs, and you can see which teams defeated these Best Offensive and Defensive teams in the playoffs and their PFR.com Scores.

 Once again it appears that spending the kind of salary cap money to build a truly dominating offense or defense may not be money well spent. Out of the twenty four teams listed on this page only four actually won the Super Bowl. Mostly all the rest of the Best lost to mere balanced teams.

   Pro FootballRanking.com is an analytics website, this “NFL Best Offense and Best Defense” section of the website is just another example the kind of statistics you will find on this website.

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The Best NFL Offenses and Defenses of the last Eleven Years

Everyone wants their team to have the best offense or defense. We all want them to be the greatest ever. You want your offense to pile up points and gain yards at an alarming rate, in other words to be unstoppable. We all want our defense to be like the “85 Bears defense, to be talked about as being one of the greatest in NFL history.

NFL Best

   We here at ProFootball Ranking.com took a look at the best of the best, on offense and defense for the last eleven years. We used the PFR.com ranking method to choose which teams were the best on Offense and Defense. A PFR.com score of 100 or less was needed to be considered the best.

  There was no team on offense that scored 100 or below in 2008, 2013, and 2014.

There were two teams that scored below 100 in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

   There were no defensive teams that made this list in 2005, 2007, and 2014. There were 2 teams in 2004, 3 teams in 2008, and 3 teams in 2013.

  We compare PFR.com Ranking with the Traditional NFL (Yards Only) Ranking and Points Scored\Allowed ranking method. Remember the Points method is points the offense scored and points the defense allowed. Kickoff and Punts returned for TD are not counted as are Interceptions and Fumbles returned for TD’s  Extra Points or PAT’s are not included. Strength of Schedule is also included.

    It is interesting to see that out of the 24 teams that are on this list of the Best of the Best, that only seven of these teams played in the Super Bowl and only four won the Super Bowl.

    It appears that having a great offense or defense doesn’t guarantee anything.

    If you are interested in churning numbers this is a good page for you to spend some time.

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The NFL Playoff's

   The NFL Playoff schedule, on Pro Football Ranking.com., is as unique as our regular season weekly game schedule. Nowhere else on the web will you find as much information in one place for each of the playoff games. We use the same format as the NFL Weekly Schedule

If you have not read the post on The NFL Schedule, I will recap what you will find on the Playoff page on PFR.com.

The NFL Playoffs

The Game Matchup Pages

The Score Card

   The first thing you will see is the names of the away team and the home team on the top of the page. This is nothing new but then comes something you won’t find anywhere else.

You will see what we call our Score Card. The Score Card gives you the Home and Away schedule for the entire season for that team. You will see the win\Loss\ and Tie record under the team’s name. On the bottom of each score card you will find the; Strength of Schedule for games played for the entire regular season, Turn Over stats, and the PFR.com Total score. The most interesting part of the score card is the Offense and Defense Score for each week of the season. This is the score from the Division Statistics Page, where the fifteen stats used for the NFL ranking are found, which is used for Team Rankings on the Team Ranking Page. The weekly Offense and Defense scores allow you to see how your offense and defense preformed each week during the regular season, and how they are trending. If the offense score, for example, is getting smaller each week your offense is playing better. If the offense score is getting larger as the season progresses then your offense is getting worse. A quick look at your opponents score card will tell you how their offense or defense is trending. This kind of information can’t be found anywhere else with out a lot of time consuming work.

Weekly Worksheet

   Just under the score cards for each team is the Weekly Worksheet. This is where the fifteen statistics used on the Division Statistics page for Offense and Defense is displayed.  Included with the offense and defense statistics is the Rushing and Passing attempts per game with the NFL Rank for each and the percentage of Rushing and Passing plays per game. You will also find the PFR.com Offense and Defense Rank on the worksheet.

   On one page you get he following information; Team win\Loss record, Strength of Schedule, Turn Over Stats, the PFR.com Total Score, a weekly record of how your offense and defense are trending for the entire NFL season, fifteen offensive and fifteen defensive statistics with the NFL ranking for each, and the PFR.com Offensive and defensive rankings. This is all in a quick and easy to understand format and all on one page for both teams. You can easily compare all of this information for each team to see just how your offense stacks up against your opponent’s defense or if their defense is trending better or worse as the season progresses.

If you can find a more informative, easy to read and understand schedule, please use the comment section and tell me where.

The NFL and Team Blogs on PFR.com

   Pro Football Ranking.com is all about NFL Offense and Defense Rankings, but we do some fun stuff also. The Weekly Game Picks and Picks against the Experts are just a couple of the thing we do for fun. We have the most unique NFL Schedule on the web so you can get your game matchups, including all the stats and information you need, with just a quick look on one website on Sunday morning. There is one other thing we do for fun, because we love our teams and have our own opinions about them and the NFL.

The NFL and Team Blogs

   Pro Football Ranking.com presently has three Blogs; The NFL Blog, The Buffalo Bills Blog, and the Kansas City Chiefs Blog. These are presently seasonal blogs only. We start writing them in late August, before the season starts, and continue them until the season is over. Fan comments are allowed and wanted.

   The Buffalo Bills Blog is written by Dave Sturm. Dave lives in Hamburg, NY and is an avid, long time Buffalo Bills fan. He is very knowledgeable about the Bill’s and the NFL.

   The Kansas City Chiefs blog is a once weekly blog written by me, Vic Johnson. I live in Excelsior Springs, Mo. I have been a Chiefs fan since the AFL days when the Dallas Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes I am that old!

   The NFL Blog is a joint project, both Dave and I contribute. This is where we sound off about anything to do with the NFL. We are not shy and will say things the way we see them.

These are not the typical daily blogs you will see in so many places because we won’t write every day or use a lot of filler (junk stuff) just to fill up space on the web. We Post our thoughts once or twice weekly when we really have something to say.

   Pro Football Ranking is looking for passionate fans from other NFL teams to write blogs for their favorite teams. If you would like o write a team blog or contribute to the NFL Blog please contact me using the contact form found listed under “More Stuff” on the Pro Football Ranking.com website. If you qualify you could have your own team blog page! You do not need to be a professional writer. You should be knowledgeable about your team, have access to Microsoft word, have basic writing skills, and you will need to keep it clean. If you are interested please contact me and be ready for a trial period.

Next up will be our NFL Playoff’s page

   I hope you have found this series on Pro Football Ranking.com interesting. I would like to hear from you. Things you like, don’t like, or ideas to improve this website are all welcome. Please leave your comments.

NFL Weekly Game Picks and Picks against the Experts

   The weekly game picks page is our fun page. This is where my friend Dave Sturm of Hamburg, NY and I try to beat the PFR.com Total Score method in picking game winners each week. Dave is an advisor to Pro Football Ranking.com as well as a contributor to our NFL Blog and is the sole writer of the Buffalo Bills Blog.

Weekly NFL Game Picks

   Starting with week two of the NFL regular season and continuing through the playoffs, Dave and I will pick every game every week. The Pro Football Ranking.com Total Score method also will pick every game unless the Total Scores are within twenty points of each other in which case it sees the games as being to close to call. The PFR.com Total Score Method is simply the team with he better (Lowest Total Score) Total Score is the team picked to win.

   On the bottom of each weeks page is the results of our game picks. First are the results from the present week. Below the present week’s results is how we did the week before.

Last is the Season Totals where the results for the whole season are given.

Against the Experts

   Dave and I are blue collar people. I am retired from the Telecommunications industry while Dave is still employed in the same line of work. We do not claim to be experts but like many of you we follow the NFL we think we are as good as the proclaimed experts.

   The Experts are going to be “The Experts from ESPN”. These are people who make a living talking and writing about the NFL on a daily basis. Their names will be listed as soon as they are published, probably just before game one.

   Since the number of games picked will be different, the win\Loss records will not total up as the same number of games. Therefore the Win\Loss\Tie percentages will be how we determine the winners.

In my next post will be the NFL and Team Blogs on RFR.com.

   Can a couple of Blue Collar guys pick as good as or better than the experts?   Will the Pro Football Ranking method be any good at picking game winners? Check back weekly during the season to find out.

I hope you are enjoying these posts and have taken a look at our website. Please leave your comments.

NFL Weekly Schedule with Game Matchups

NFL schedules abound seemingly everywhere on the internet. They all will tell you which teams are playing and some other useful information, but not much. Wouldn’t it be nice to have schedules that really gave you all the important information? Well look no farther that the Pro Football Ranking.com Schedule page which includes all the important information in their game matchups.

The Schedule with Game Matchups

   The PFR.com Schedule page lists all the games weekly and gives you each team’s record. This is not a lot different then you can find most anywhere. The difference comes when you click on the game matchup buttons. Each game has its own page filled with all sorts of information in an easy to read format.

The Game Matchup Pages

The Score Card

   The first thing you will see is the names of the away team and the home team on the top of the page. This is nothing new but then comes something you won’t find anywhere else.

You will see what we call our Score Card. The Score Card gives you the Home and Away schedule for the entire season for that team. You will see the win\Loss\ and Tie record under the team’s name. On the bottom of each score card you will find the; Strength of Schedule for games played so far, Turn Over stats, and the PFR.com Total score. The most interesting part of the score card is the Offense and Defense Score for each week of the season. This is the score from the Division Statistics Page, where the fifteen stats used for the NFL ranking are found, which is used for Team Rankings on the TeamRanking Page. The weekly Offense and Defense scores allow you to see how your offense and defense have preformed each week and are trending. If the offense score, for example, is getting smaller each week your offense is playing better. If the offense score is getting larger as the season progresses then your offense is getting worse. A quick look at your opponents score card will tell you how their offense or defense is trending. This kind of information can’t be found anywhere else with out a lot of time consuming work.

Weekly Worksheet

   Just under the score cards for each team is the Weekly Worksheet. This is where the fifteen statistics used on the Division Statistics page for Offense and Defense is displayed.  Included with the offense and defense statistics is the Rushing and Passing attempts per game with the NFL Rank for each and the percentage of Rushing and Passing plays per game. You will also find the PFR.com Offense and Defense Rank on the worksheet.

   On one page you get he following information; Team win\Loss record, Strength of Schedule, Turn Over Stats, the PFR.com Total Score, a weekly record of how your offense and defense are trending for the entire NFL season, fifteen offensive and fifteen defensive statistics with the NFL ranking for each, and the PFR.com Offensive and defensive rankings. This is all in a quick and easy to understand format and all on one page for both teams. You can easily compare all of this information for each team to see just how your offense stacks up against your opponent’s defense or if their defense is trending better or worse as the season progresses.

   You get up Sunday morning and want information on your favorite team’s game. Do you really want to do all the research needed or are you like most of us and just won’t spend the time to find out? Well you don’t need to anything except come to the Pro football Ranking.com Schedule Page, click on the Game Button for your game, and you get all the information you want. We have done all the work for you!  How easy is that?

Next up is the NFL Weekly Game Picks, us against the so called experts.

   If you can find a better NFL schedule, please leave your comments and let me know because I don’t think there is a better schedule anywhere.

Points Scored\Allowed vs Yards Gained\Allowed Rankings on Pro Football Ranking.com.

    The NFL’s versions of Total Offense and Total Defense are the Yards Gained and Yards Allowed statistics. While these are nice and useful statistics they certainly don’t tell anything about the outcome of the games played. You have never heard of a game outcome being reported as Green Bay 457 yards to Minnesota 362 yards. Points scored and points allowed determine who wins each and every game. I am of course talking about Team Points Scored and allowed, which include; Kickoffs returned for Touchdowns, Punts returned for Touchdown, Fumbles and Interceptions returned for touchdowns. These are nice and always exciting but what do they tell you about how your offense or defense are playing? The answer to this question is they don’t tell you much!

   Pro FootballRanking.com does some things you won’t find anywhere else on the internet that I can find. In this post I am going to talk about Offensive (only) points scored and Defensive (only) points allowed.

   Offensive points scored are exactly what it sounds like, points that the offense scores. Defensive points allowed are points the defense allows. This is not the Team Points statistic you find everywhere else.

Special Teams touchdowns, Fumbles and Interceptions returned for scores are not included. Since I consider PAT’s to be special teams they are not included, at least for now, but with the rule changes this year PAT’s might be included in the future.

 The only scoring we use are offensive TD’s and Field Goals, points actually scored by the offense. On defense we only include TD’s and Field Goals actually scored by the opposing offense. This is different then what you find anywhere else because this website is about Total Offense and Total Defense Ranking.

   This brings us to a total of four ranking methods updated weekly on our website; PFR.com’s True Total Offense and Defense, The NFL’s traditional Yards only method, Offensive Points scored and Defensive points allowed method, and the PFR.com Total Score Method.

   Three of these ranking methods are presented to you on one web page in a side by side comparison on our Points vs Yards Ranking page. Where else can you go to find each NFL team rankings, side by side, for three different ranking methods?  If you already clicked on the link to the Points vs Yards page you will have noticed that we have added a fourth ranking method, the Average’s Method. This method is the average ranking of the other three methods.

   This makes a total of four ways to see how your offense and defense are doing on one page. It doesn’t matter which method you prefer, a quick look gives you a lot of information in an easy to understand format all in one place. You won’t find this anywhere else. Remember there is a fifth ranking method, on the TotalScore NFL Team Rankings Page, for those of you that want to see an overall ranking of your team’s offense and defense.

Five different ranking methods for offense and defense on one website

    If you want to know how your team stacks up against the rest of the NFL. The answers are at Pro Football Ranking.com.

Up next is our one of a kind NFL Weekly Schedule.

I hope you have taken a good look and like what you see, remember to check out the past years archived. Please leave your comments.