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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
I guess whether or not theres a problem is purely opinional based on what your expectation for the offense is. If you look at the prior two years as the standard/expectation, then I would say there are no problems. We are up in PPG, YPG and pretty much every major metric from last year. Turnovers are down significantly.
On the contrary, if you thought that the additions we made would make us a top three offense, and that was your expectation, then its pretty obvious this group hasn't reached your standards, and thus is underachieving. There are better offenses then us around the league.
And of course if you expected perfection (and there are people on this fourm who do), then there are a lot of problems. Brunell isn't perfect, Moss isn't perfect, Portis isn't perfect...etc. So yeah, then you call for Brunell's head, get Campbell, and as soon as he isnt perfect, call for his head.
I think a lot of us preseason, were thinking this would be a defensive mided football team, with a stronger offense than last year (cause thats what I was thinking). Well, one unit has met expectations, one hasn't, IMO. So rather than blame the unit that did meet expectations, I'm fed up with the one that didn't.
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there's a flaw in your arguement there. the PPG and YPG are up because of the massive amounts of garbage time an how it was used. when we needed three scores, we made no attempt to get more than 10 yards at a time and move slowly down the field. (bombs away is how you get multiple scores, of course, but with the higher chance to actually win (instead of pad stats), there's a higher chance of turnovers, less chance of yardage (more incompletes), and less chance of points (if you're down 14 and take 4 minutes when you start with 4:30 to go, the defense doesn't really care as much about letting you in).
The offense was on fire for the texans and jags, but beside that, in the competitive parts of games, they've been somewhat invisible. last year they were more clutch (putting up 35 when it still mattered vs TB, 19 and like 322yards passing vs DEN, a decent showing vs SD, KC, etc), and then the defense became clutch down the stretch. this year we've had 2 games of killer offense and 5 games of bad offense until garbage time kicked in. that's NOT better overall, even if you expected no change at all.