2019 Pats D better than 1985 Bears?

[wab]

Patriots have 18 interceptions while allowing 1 touchdown pass

Posted by Michael David Smith on October 23, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT

The Patriots’ pass defense is dominating opposing quarterbacks like no defense we’ve seen in a long time. Maybe like no defense ever.

The most incredible statistic to sum up how the Patriots’ pass defense is playing is this: New England has 18 interceptions this season, while allowing one touchdown pass.

League-wide, there are more than twice as many touchdown passes as interceptions — unless the Patriots’ defense is on the field. So far this season the Patriots’ defense has been responsible for 10.4 percent of all the interceptions in the NFL and has allowed just 0.3 percent of all the touchdown passes in the NFL.

The Patriots’ defense has allowed a cumulative passer rating this season of 35.6. The league average is 91.4. Compare that to the 1985 Bears’ defense, considered by many the most dominant defense ever, which allowed a cumulative passer rating of 51.2 in a year when the league average was 73.5. These Patriots are more dominant than the 1985 Bears.

Whether New England can keep it up as the season continues and the schedule gets harder remains to be seen. But through seven games, the Patriots’ defense is doing something extraordinary.

[The Marshall Plan]

Their schedule so far hasn't been any team worth a darn.

Steelers
Dolphins
Jets
Bills
Redskins
Giants
Jets again

I'm not trying to be a dismissive meatball, but it doesn't get much easier than that schedule. You never know. They could easily be legit.

[Otis Day]

They can only play who is on their scheduled. I would say at this time, they are more dominant. Whether that remains true over the next 10 weeks..................time will tell. Right now, dominant as a mutha f*cka.

[UOK]

Nah.

The 1985 Bears couldn't exist now, and the 2019 Pats defense would've been good-but-not-great in 1985.

The '85 Bears defense is a galactic anomaly of talent, scheme, and circumstances that, for a single season at least, was permitted to obliterate souls on the gridiron.

[Boris13c]

The '85 Bears defense is a galactic anomaly of talent, scheme, and circumstances that, for a single season at least, was permitted to obliterate souls on the gridiron.

yeah, pretty much

[southdakbearfan]

The '85 Bears defense is a galactic anomaly of talent, scheme, and circumstances that, for a single season at least, was permitted to obliterate souls on the gridiron.

yeah, pretty much

Exactly.

I also predict that the pats defense will get lit up some as their schedule toughens