November 15, 2018 05:47PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 7,313
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On its own trying to compare to other teams does not mean a whole lot since we do not know the scenarios. As I stated before Goff and Brees have the same number of red zone TDs. I do not know what the rushing TDS are but I would not be surprised if they are similar. Yet the variance between the Saints and Rams RZ TD percentage is 16 percent.
Lots of people on this thread opined it may be that we don't have a big body to throw to. And no doubt that could help but we still have 16 RZ passing TDS which is only surpassed by KC and IND.
Ultimately you want to score a TD on every possession. Thats the goal. At the end of the day what matters is how many points you score. This is football not baseball. All sample sizes are relatively small.
IF, the passing TDs are as you say, the rushing TDs can't be similar since their percentage is much higher than ours. A TD comes from rushing or passing so we can do simple math.
Assuming 16 passing TDs is correct, that means they have 20 rushing TDs to the Rams 14. Calculated as follows:
Rams - 53 RZ trips, 30 RZ TDs, 56.6% rate
Saints - 49 RZ trips, 36 RZ TDs, 73.5% rate
Subtract 16 passing TDs from each team and you have the rushing TDs number of 20 (NO) to 14 (Rams).
I agree that the ultimate goal is how many points you score. In order to score more points, they should get that RZ rate into the 70% range like other elite offenses.
If they did that, they wouldn't be the #3 team in PPG, they would be #1. That's the goal right?
EDIT: Just ran the numbers.... If the Rams scored TDs in the RZ at the Saints' 73.5% rate, they would have scored an additional 9 TDs on the year.
Assuming on every one of those 9 TDs they successfully kicked a FG (not a great assumption since they could have missed the FG), they would have scored an additional 36 points on the year which means they would be averaging 37.1 PPG, good for the #1 ranking. This is the
minimum amount of points added since FGs aren't always successful.
That accomplishes the ultimate goal of scoring more points right?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2018 05:52PM by dzrams.
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