Points!

[SunsetBengal]

(07-09-2021, 11:05 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: While I agree with what you are saying, we lost Burrow for 7.5 games and Mixon for 13, not the entire season, so I would bump that six points for a little more than half the season.  Which would put them around 23 points per game...good for roughly 22nd in the league.  

I will point out that if you look only at the games that Burrow started and finished, they had 22.67 points.  If you throw out the clunker against the Ravens, the average goes up to 25.13.  

That tells me several things:  

Burrow was right at the league average (16th) in games he started and finished (if you throw out the Ravens game. More on that in a second) despite facing solid defenses like LA (Woo Hoo, I didn't say San Diego!), Philly, Indy (who was ranked #1 at the time they played, iirc), and although I didn't count it in the stats because he didn't finish the game (and I know, they didn't score a lot) but he had 200 yards passing at halftime against the WFT. 

This also tells me that they really need to figure out how to attack the Ratbirds.  I know Joe didn't get a second chance, and his second time facing the Browns showed a strong step up.  That being said, right now that defense has totally dominated ZT's offense.  

In order to compete with Baltimore, you have to make them respect the run.  If you can't hang with them on the LOS, you're just in for a long day.