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Final 2009 Defensive Passer Rating
Cold, Hard Football Facts for January 4, 2010

(Defensive Passer Rating is a "Quality Stat" because it has a direct correlation to winning football games. Click here to read more about this "Stat That Matters.")
 
Final 2009 DEFENSIVE PASSER RATING UPDATE
Data is accurate through the end of the 2009 season. The Saints provided the most obvious example of the importance of Defensive Passer Rating in 2009.
 
Most pigskin "pundits" looked at New Orleans and saw a pass defense that ranked a mere 26th, because they surrendered a whopping 3,961 yards. Many of these "pundits" assumed, then, that the Saints were vulnerable against Peyton Manning and the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.
 
But we looked at Defensive Passer Rating and saw one of the best pass-defense units in football. As a result, we told you this defense would make a big play against Manning and that the Saints would win the Super Bowl. You know what happened: New Orleans DB Tracy Porter nabbed a pick-six in the fourth quarter to salt away a 31-17 Saints Super Bowl win.
 
Remember, follow our Quality Stats, and they'll almost always lead you down Porter's path: that's right, straight to the pigskin promised land.
 
Final 2009 Defensive Passer Rating
  Team Att  Comp  %  Yds  YPA  TD  Int  Rating   
1 N.Y. Jets 501 259 51.7 2,704 5.4 8 17 58.84  
2 Buffalo 519 295 56.84 3,137 6.04 14 28 61.15  
3 New Orleans 574 330 57.49 3,961 6.9 15 26 68.58  
4 Green Bay 540 294 54.44 3,450 6.39 29 30 68.83  
5 Carolina 495 305 61.62 3,249 6.56 14 22 71.69  
6 Baltimore 524 306 58.4 3,506 6.69 17 22 71.95  
7 Cincinnati 547 318 58.13 3,486 6.37 18 19 73.58  
8 Denver 510 298 58.43 3,222 6.32 18 17 74.98  
9 San Francisco 580 352 60.69 3,963 6.83 14 18 76.24  
10 Arizona 593 346 58.35 3,998 6.74 22 21 76.41  
11 Philadelphia 580 354 61.03 3,778 6.51 27 25 77.64  
12 Indianapolis 583 372 63.81 3,631 6.23 19 16 80.64  
13 New England 512 300 58.59 3,598 7.03 25 18 81.82  
14 Houston 548 344 62.77 3,674 6.7 19 14 83.24  
15 Pittsburgh 549 320 58.29 3,761 6.85 22 12 83.45  
16 Dallas 572 344 60.14 3,874 6.77 19 11 83.48  
17 San Diego 534 326 61.05 3,569 6.68 23 14 84.24  
18 Washington 512 315 61.52 3,557 6.95 19 11 85.72  
19 Miami 489 281 57.46 3,996 8.17 23 15 86.92  
20 Kansas City 509 302 59.33 3,844 7.55 25 15 87.09  
21 Tampa Bay 482 301 62.45 3,484 7.23 28 19 87.18  
22 Atlanta 537 336 62.57 4,043 7.53 25 15 89.47  
23 Oakland 437 259 59.27 3,531 8.08 16 8 89.72  
24 Cleveland 526 313 59.51 4,149 7.89 22 10 90.56  
25 Tennessee 603 403 66.83 4,355 7.22 31 20 91.19  
26 Chicago 531 341 64.22 3,654 6.88 29 13 92.27  
27 Minnesota 535 341 63.74 3,812 7.12 26 11 92.52  
28 Seattle 568 374 65.84 4,112 7.24 27 13 93.43  
29 N.Y. Giants 498 314 63.05 3,662 7.35 31 13 95.14  
30 Jacksonville 510 345 67.65 3,853 7.55 28 15 95.98  
31 St. Louis 491 315 64.16 3,913 7.97 22 8 96.9  
32 Detroit 546 372 68.13 4,404 8.07 36 9 107.58  
 

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