(12-27-2018, 05:19 PM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote:

(12-27-2018, 03:40 PM)hb1148 Wrote: There were inconsistencies last year true, mostly thanks to Blake's inconsistency. But that was a pretty good offense last year. Only 17th in passing offense but we lead the league in rushing offense and as I already mentioned, 6th in overall scoring and 7th in offensive TDs scored. No matter how you cut it, that's pretty darn good.  Makes the collapse this year all the more crazy.

I disagree. You're trotting out rankings as if they mean everything. There are so many factors those rankings do not take into account. For example, let's revisit scoring. Already mentioned was defensive touchdowns, but how many offensive scores can still be attributed to the defense by giving the offense a short field? How about time of possession afforded the offense by the defense? Truth be told, as often as the defense gave the offense the ball, the team should have been number one in scoring by a large margin. Also, if the offense was "darn good" as you describe, the team would had have a better record than the 10-6 they posted, plus the would have went into this season as the Champions.

Really, last year's offense was average, so yes, this year's "collapse" makes perfect sense. Take an already questionable offense, saddle it with some key injuries, and we get the complete ineptitude we've witnessed this season.

I mean even if you say the defense was giving them short field do you really think the defenses above and below or ranking weren't getting the same kind of production if not better then ours? That seems like your cherry picking things for your argument it goes both ways. Wouldn't that mean the Ravens who ended up with more turnovers then our defense did by 1 be above us in their OFF RANKINGS with your logic? They weren't even close btw the Ravens were 29th in passing and 11th in rushing. Detroit and Philly were within 1 to 2 turnovers as well and the lions didn't really capitalize on their turnovers/ short field being 6th in passing BUT 32ND in rushing. Philly was 13th passing and 4 in rushing. Close enough to us that it should be a non factor. The offense was able to handle it self effectively in its own right last year unlike this catastrophe we have going this year.

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