December 23, 2020 04:25PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 7,313
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Honestly to me, everything you wrote above is a long winded way of saying there's a low standard.
Let's look closer at 2020 scoring. If you take out the "bad games" and look at the other 6 games where we scored below league average, the scoring is not much higher. We averaged 21.3 points in those 6 games. And the only one that we took our foot off the pedal was against NE.
So there are 5 games where we are below league average despite trying to score up until the end. If that's ok - low standards.
2019 scoring is not deceptive. We scored above league average in 9 games. And only 3 of those 9 could qualify as running up the score. On the contrary, we scored 40 in a loss to TB, 31 in a loss to SF, and 29 in a loss to Seattle. Clearly, the 2019 offense was better than this year's version with a bad OL.
I'm sorry...if that's not alarming - low standards.
And after looking at both seasons, how does it make sense for one to make an argument that we sometimes ran up the score in 2019 but CHOSE to not do that in 2020? If the HC was willing to do that last year, why not this year? The most obvious answer is, we're not doing it because we CAN NOT.
But you say we can. I say, if the question we're asking is "CAN this team score more" and we're satisfied with the answer of "yes, they CAN because they've done it once or twice," I'm sorry but that's a low standard.
I'm all for understanding the full picture but at some point it is time to judge. And if the judgment is, it's ok for them to be the 17th ranked offense in points scored, I'm sorry but that's a low standard.
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