Some highlights on the struggles of our offense and improving but still not good enough defense. I tried to find some of the stats that I feel are the most important to get flipped. The best indicator of that is the Points per Game and Points per Play stats. They point to the efficiency of our offense and defense. As you can see, we have gotten continually (year over year) better on D and continually worse on O. This is why I think you see so many close games both lost and won.
Mainly I think this is due to a totally new offense and mindset including a huge switch from pass to run (0.80 runs to passes to 1.15 last year and 1.68 this year). Defense has had more experience on their side of the ball. Losing our proven weapons on offense has really hurt (Mo, WR hurt, AM hurt and regression, Devine, Stanley). Our sacks and TFL are drastically worse on offense basically going from 5% to almost 9% this year for sacks. TFL follows a similar trend.
For defense, the inability to get off the field on 3rd down and inability to improve Red Zone D is the major cause since things like sacks and TFL have improved.
Mainly I think this is due to a totally new offense and mindset including a huge switch from pass to run (0.80 runs to passes to 1.15 last year and 1.68 this year). Defense has had more experience on their side of the ball. Losing our proven weapons on offense has really hurt (Mo, WR hurt, AM hurt and regression, Devine, Stanley). Our sacks and TFL are drastically worse on offense basically going from 5% to almost 9% this year for sacks. TFL follows a similar trend.
For defense, the inability to get off the field on 3rd down and inability to improve Red Zone D is the major cause since things like sacks and TFL have improved.
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2017 2018 2019
PPG 31.1 30.0 28.0
PPG Allow 36.4 31.3 27.8
PPP 0.44 0.40 0.38
PPP Allow 0.53 0.42 0.40
RZ PPA 3.8 4.5 3.8
RANKINGS
Total Off 87 25 58
Scoring Off 84 58 71
Sacks Allowed 52 68 86
TFL Allowed 22 65 114
3rd D Conv 89 86 53
RZ Conv 111 26 116
Long Scrim 73 27 63
Total Def 101 94 66
Scoring Def 116 88 66
Opp 1st D 109 102 52
Sacks 119 76 56
TFL 129 101 57
Opp 3rd D 99 105 76
Opp RZ Conv 103 53 122
Long Scrim Allow 84 65 68
