Coming off of two straight wins, the Indianapolis Colts have dug themselves out of an 0-2 start and are at 2-2 on the season. Next up is a divisional matchup at Jacksonville, where the Colts haven’t won on the road since 2014.
With all of the information and stats that are out there, it cane be really easy to get overwhelmed or bogged down in the data that comes with dissecting each upcoming matchup.
Whatever sort of information you would like to find about your team, players, or the opponent, is likely out there. And in putting together this statistical comparison article, I could have went on and on and on.
However, in trying to boil things down to what do we need to know coming into this game, I went back to the basics. How good is each team in the run game? How efficiently do they move the ball through the air? Do they pressure the quarterback consistently? And what about the turnover battle?
Even with all the stats and information out there, these core figures can often give us some insight into where matchup advantages lie that could determine the outcome of the game.
With help from Team Rankings and Pro Football Reference, here is how the Colts matchup stat-wise in a few key categories with the Jaguars:
| IND | JAX | |
| Points per game | 21.3 (16th) | 15.0 (T29) |
| Points per game allowed | 21.3 (T14) | 27.3 (30th) |
| Yards per rush | 5.0 (7th) | 5.7 (2nd) |
| Yards per rush allowed | 4.4 (15th) | 3.9 (6th) |
| Yards per pass | 8.0 (6th) | 5.8 (28th) |
| Yards per pass allowed | 7.1 (25th) | 7.7 (30th) |
| Pressure rate on QB | 25% (15th) | 22% (21st) |
| Pressure rate allowed | 20.7% (13th) | 20.9% (15th) |
| Turnover differential | 0 (T15) | -2 (T24) |