4th and 3 take the points

[KillerGoose]

(11-01-2021, 04:41 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Maybe in the Land of Make Believe. But absolutely NO ONE in the NFL nor anyone who reports on the NFL or professionally analyzes NFL games would say the offense was equally or more to blame and I defy you to prove me wrong. 

Yeah, the offense wasn't an issue. They weren't great, but they weren't bad. They ranked 14th in EPA for Week 8 (so far). The defense ranked 21st in EPA, but the killer was YAC EPA. Cincinnati was 31st. Basically, that means that Cincinnati gave up a lot of points due to YAC. I've seen people mentioning the dinking and dunking and that is exactly what NY did. They took what was there and we didn't capitalize on open field tackles or trying to play tight on short routes.