Eight teams remain ahead of the 2020 NFL divisional round. Counting both the offensive and defensive side of the ball, this makes for sixteen units left in the trenches. As we will see below, only two of them feature a below-average survival curve (or opposing survival curve, in the case of defensive lines), illustrating the importance of generating or avoiding pressure when it comes to winning games.
During the playoffs, we will investigate each game's trench matchups by looking at survival curves for offensive and defensive lines and predicting how often and how quickly the quarterbacks will be put under pressure.