[JaredL]

This early you would need to adjust for the Patriots dismantling those Ds. They aren't good teams obviously, but if the Patriots put up 400+ yards and you've only played four or five total games that alone will drop your D rating a lot.

The really unbalanced schedules this early cause this stat to not be very useful IMO. Off the top of my head, Cleveland has played Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and New England all which should be very good offenses statistically when the year is done. Buffalo has faced Pittsburgh, Dallas and New England.

Compare those teams to Pittsburgh, who is the top defense at least by yards. Pittsburgh has played Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Arizona and Seattle. Based on recent years Arizona and Seattle have decent but not great offenses, San Francisco so-so and Cleveland and Buffalo have been bad.