Every cloud has a silver lining, and every NFL team does some things well. Even the worst team has certain plays and tendencies with which the players are productive.
We've gone through Football Outsiders' extensive stat databases to point out specific strengths of each team in 2017: one for offense and one for defense. Some of these splits are significant for illuminating the strengths and weaknesses of each team's personnel. Other splits tend to oscillate wildly from year to year, and a great performance in 2017 might not indicate that a team will be equally strong in the same ways in 2018. Either way, the numbers provide an interesting window into what each team did right last season.
Football Outsiders' advanced metrics are explained here. The most important is DVOA, which measures success on each play compared to the league average adjusted for situation and opponent. Because it is measured on a per-play basis, DVOA can easily be separated to measure specific splits; you'll see a lot of those ratings below.
Charting metrics including personnel, pass pressure and broken tackles come from Sports Info Solutions unless otherwise noted. You can find many more of these stats for each team in our preseason book Football Outsiders Almanac 2018, which is now available online.
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