Week 10 of the 2015 NFL season wrapped up on Monday night and below are the league-wide ANY/A differential stats as we enter Week 11.
While the Arizona Cardinals were able to beat the Seattle Seahawks Sunday night, their ANY/A differential has now fallen under 4.0. If you have been following along with the ANY/A posts of mine over the course of the last few weeks and years, you knew that dip under 4.0 was coming. The Cardinals are a very balanced football team on both offense and defense, however, and barring any injuries at significant skill positions, you have to think they will be one of the two teams playing for the NFC Championship in a few more months. In reality, there’s only 4 teams in the NFC right now with a good shot at making it to the Super Bowl this year, in my opinion.
As for the AFC, the Cincinnati Bengals were brought back to earth some Monday night with their loss to the Houston Texans at home. Even so, the Bengals remain a balanced team and thus there’s no reason to think they will fall off the cliff. However, the Bengals will play the Cardinals Sunday night and I will be surprised if they win that game. If they do, it will be a huge statement by them.
As for the Pittsburgh Steelers, they enter their bye week with a positive differential and that’s a good sign. However, while their defensive ANY/A did drop a little this week during their win over the Cleveland Browns, they should’ve been able to drop it more being as they were playing against Johnny Manziel. The Steelers have the worst defensive ANY/A number of the top 13 teams in these rankings and that’s very concerning if you are expecting this team to compete for another championship this season.
The Steelers have time to improve their defense, but history shows that they’re very unlikely to be able to get that defensive number under 5.0 by the end of the regular season. In my opinion, that’s where it will need to be if they really want to make a legitimate run at the Super Bowl this year.
As usual, you can consider the rankings below as my power rankings headed into Week 11.
| TM | OFFENSE | DEFENSE | DIF | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM | AT | YDS | TD | INT | SK | SKYDS | ANY/A | AT | YDS | TD | INT | SK | SKYDS | ANY/A | DIF |
| ARI | 312 | 2759 | 23 | 7 | 14 | 84 | 8.65 | 325 | 2102 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 93 | 4.88 | 3.77 |
| NE | 370 | 3043 | 24 | 3 | 21 | 110 | 8.38 | 357 | 2508 | 14 | 9 | 30 | 207 | 5.62 | 2.76 |
| CIN | 296 | 2423 | 18 | 5 | 14 | 74 | 8.01 | 340 | 2290 | 11 | 9 | 26 | 163 | 5.31 | 2.70 |
| CAR | 272 | 2037 | 15 | 9 | 18 | 120 | 6.25 | 374 | 2255 | 11 | 14 | 26 | 144 | 4.25 | 2.00 |
| GB | 313 | 2270 | 21 | 3 | 22 | 143 | 7.20 | 324 | 2424 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 126 | 5.89 | 1.31 |
| NYJ | 325 | 2248 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 53 | 6.22 | 342 | 2220 | 15 | 10 | 21 | 147 | 5.30 | 0.92 |
| KC | 301 | 2177 | 10 | 3 | 31 | 167 | 6.25 | 338 | 2362 | 17 | 13 | 26 | 163 | 5.37 | 0.88 |
| OAK | 348 | 2538 | 23 | 7 | 12 | 91 | 7.20 | 383 | 2741 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 102 | 6.35 | 0.85 |
| ATL | 357 | 2702 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 107 | 6.74 | 336 | 2322 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 41 | 5.93 | 0.81 |
| PIT | 328 | 2737 | 15 | 10 | 23 | 149 | 6.95 | 393 | 2947 | 17 | 9 | 28 | 163 | 6.46 | 0.49 |
| BUF | 261 | 2001 | 14 | 7 | 27 | 198 | 6.14 | 357 | 2341 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 72 | 5.82 | 0.32 |
| DEN | 346 | 2326 | 10 | 18 | 18 | 115 | 4.40 | 310 | 1854 | 8 | 9 | 32 | 209 | 4.09 | 0.31 |
| SEA | 266 | 2118 | 10 | 7 | 33 | 181 | 6.09 | 290 | 1996 | 9 | 4 | 23 | 171 | 5.83 | 0.26 |
| NYG | 384 | 2700 | 21 | 6 | 15 | 81 | 6.94 | 410 | 3164 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 65 | 6.75 | 0.19 |
| PHI | 358 | 2453 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 142 | 5.41 | 351 | 2376 | 15 | 12 | 23 | 155 | 5.30 | 0.11 |
| CHI | 311 | 2229 | 13 | 6 | 16 | 86 | 6.52 | 292 | 2058 | 17 | 5 | 15 | 105 | 6.74 | -0.22 |
| STL | 259 | 1698 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 90 | 5.43 | 303 | 2153 | 8 | 6 | 29 | 151 | 5.70 | -0.27 |
| HOU | 395 | 2543 | 17 | 8 | 20 | 117 | 5.80 | 304 | 2163 | 16 | 7 | 23 | 161 | 6.14 | -0.34 |
| SD | 396 | 3096 | 20 | 7 | 21 | 139 | 7.29 | 284 | 2348 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 105 | 7.79 | -0.50 |
| TEN | 299 | 2216 | 14 | 9 | 29 | 199 | 5.77 | 263 | 2111 | 16 | 9 | 27 | 187 | 6.34 | -0.57 |
| TB | 285 | 2159 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 112 | 6.12 | 303 | 2232 | 19 | 7 | 20 | 133 | 6.70 | -0.58 |
| MIN | 260 | 1825 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 192 | 5.27 | 318 | 2192 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 140 | 5.91 | -0.64 |
| DAL | 291 | 2099 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 120 | 5.64 | 306 | 2275 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 104 | 6.60 | -0.96 |
| WAS | 334 | 2278 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 75 | 6.01 | 290 | 2237 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 122 | 7.03 | -1.02 |
| MIA | 337 | 2477 | 15 | 9 | 27 | 250 | 5.83 | 310 | 2448 | 17 | 7 | 20 | 156 | 7.02 | -1.19 |
| IND | 369 | 2376 | 18 | 12 | 18 | 104 | 5.41 | 341 | 2587 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 73 | 6.73 | -1.32 |
| JAC | 356 | 2381 | 19 | 11 | 28 | 152 | 5.51 | 340 | 2562 | 17 | 5 | 19 | 146 | 7.05 | -1.54 |
| CLE | 382 | 2830 | 16 | 6 | 36 | 228 | 6.34 | 339 | 2781 | 21 | 6 | 16 | 96 | 7.99 | -1.65 |
| BAL | 370 | 2489 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 117 | 5.67 | 333 | 2594 | 18 | 4 | 24 | 155 | 7.34 | -1.67 |
| NO | 409 | 3307 | 20 | 10 | 24 | 175 | 7.12 | 348 | 3081 | 28 | 4 | 22 | 150 | 8.95 | -1.83 |
| DET | 377 | 2526 | 16 | 13 | 22 | 139 | 5.32 | 310 | 2489 | 16 | 4 | 23 | 148 | 7.45 | -2.13 |
| SF | 269 | 1800 | 8 | 7 | 28 | 166 | 4.98 | 322 | 2648 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 123 | 7.37 | -2.39 |
