glimmerman
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Not trying to jump in the middle of this but it’s a team game. We needed to win sometimes in all 3 phases. 1 ranked Offense and what was it, 9 ranked Defense. I find that 9 ranked Defense suspect. Lol. But almost dead last on ST.Your right i did post the wrong link my mistake and i did look at the link you posted too but didn't use that link because they only base the starting field position as "LOS/KO represents average starting field position (line of scrimmage) following a kickoff. " It doesn't include average field position after punts too just kickoffs. If you think that our offense was hindered by starting field position after a kickoff you are reaching, but what you are saying doesn't change anything, if they were 30th then it sure didn't hurt them being 4th in points scored, what part of that is hard to understand? You look for anyone and anything to blame except our offense who dissappeared all to often this past season. In our 8 losses this season our mighty offense only scored 136 points or 17 per game and even that stat is skewed by all the garbage time points we picked up in games against the Packers, Bears, Jets etc. Your not winning many games in the NFL averaging 17 points per game (in losses i know) we beat up the bad teams very well but were over matched against the better teams. The Saints, Bills, Pats, Eagles (last game) we scored a combined 43 points, that is less than 11 points per game but you want to blame special teams...lol. I wonder how many times in NFL history the #1 ranked offense in the NFL missed the playoffs with the #9 ranked D in the NFL? but by all means it was totally the fault of our special teams
https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/view/defense
Did we get ranked 1 on Offense for yards traveled. Is there a average of where we started our drives from. Did we get a lot of penalties on kick off returns. It seems like we always started drives from deep in our own territory. And one miscue or bad pass or dropped pass or penalty killed drives right outside FG range or our 66% kicker missed everything that wasn’t 60+ yards out. Lol. Our Defense didn’t seem to get a lot of 3 and outs we gave up first downs and when we stopped them they punted and pinned us deep because we had no punt returner.
Then of course there was games that our Offense stunk it up. No excuse for our Offense to be shut down.