FiveThirtyEight has put out an end of year graphic for the NFL teams based on their expected points per play metric.

 

Expected points per play isn't my favorite metric, but it is a pretty solid way to get a general feel.

 

Nothing too surprising in any of this, I think we'd all agree our offense was pretty awful and that our defense improved.  Still, it's nice to see a sizable bump in defense-- hopefully next year we'll see a pretty significant bump in offense with maturation and potentially a new scheme.  It's a good way to visualize that even with significant improvement, we're still probably only going to be only middle of the pack offensively and can expect more bumps in the road. I'm hoping for sizable defense increase next year as well.

 

http://i.imgur.com/GfGPjOz.png

 

The graphic is fairly large so I'm linking to it instead of embedding it.

 

Do you see us making any sizable shifts next year?  I'd love to see us move towards the 0.0/0.0 intersection by next year with a couple of games that show us in the upper right quadrant.

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