"Offensive" Analysis

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Originally Posted by Paintrain

I acknowledged the O-line issues and Campbell's inexperience.. My point was more a trend supported by the numbers in JG17's current tenure as head coach.. If we didn't have talent that's one thing, but we shouldn't be scoring less, on average of the past 4 years than teams such as the Jets, Bills, Bears, Cards, Browns, Ravens, Raiders, Texans, Bucs, & Titans.

Of course, if we threw the ball a lot more, we could make the game last longer and score a lot of points.

Would that give us a better chance to win? Absolutely not. Running the ball shortens the game, and by nature, leaves the outcome more up to chance. Less plays means that there is a greater chance that the fluky plays (Burress runs right through our secondary) in a game can influence the outcome. Thus against better teams, we should try to run the ball often to shorten the game.

Against worse teams, I would try to throw all over them until the lead got big enough, then run out the clock. This is what we tried to do against New York. The problem was that the passing efficency was awful in the second half, and the defense was awful, and it didn't take long for New York to get right back in.

Turns out that they probably weren't as bad as we thought. As my HS coach would always say, "we would have won the game, unfortunately we just ran out of time."