Last year the Cowboys kicked 30 FG's.
Last year the Cowboys scored 48 TD's.
That for the stats.
I think you know what I mean.
Garrett would too often get across mid-field and then the drive would stall..
and we would try a long FG.
The FG kicker would make a 60 yd kick then come back and miss a 40 yd kick.
They finally woke up and cut the kicker.
It just seemed clear to me the team needed a new kicker way before he cost a couple of games down the stretch.
And it seemed obviously we needed to score more points than 3 pt as our defense could not hold the other team off.
So numbers of scored and types of scored matter not as much as when and how.
Again, the stat guys see one thing, the casual observer sees something else.
Back in HS, I played football. I played both ways, TE and LBer. My Jr year I had a knee injury and had surgery. I had a walking cast and my football coach came to me..
and said he needed a stat guy to help him and would I do it. I had never done that.
Additionally somebody had to call the scores into the Dallas Morning News for the Saturday sports section.
I also got to give the sports dept a 3 sentence summary of the game to go with the stats.
Needless to say, everybody wanted me to mention them in the report, I was really popular. I went from being depressed with my injury to being BMOC- Big Man On Campus.
I also learned stats often mislead. Unless viewed in an overall way with how the game went down..they were useless.
So...I dig your comment, but even you have to admit it's not the whole story.