01-17-2023, 06:13 AM
(01-17-2023, 01:13 AM)Rubekahn29 Wrote: I think people mistake us not doing anything because we only had 7 drives all game. For comparison- the Bills had 8 in the FIRST half of their game. We scored 17 points in the 1st five drives, with 3 scores, 1 punt and 1 turnover. That’s really good at 3.4 points per drive. Our last 2 drives got super conservative holding on to the lead (which has been a problem recently).
I don’t think our offense did as poor as many think though. Including our last two drives, a total of 17 points, we averaged 2.4 points per drive, and Buffalo, even though they scored 34, they had 15 drives and averaged 2.2 points per drive.
This was more about lack of opportunities vs lack of performance.
Definitely a reasonable point. I agree with applying this to the first half in particular, we had 3 meaningful drives and scored on two of them. We scored 17 points on our first 5 drives, and one of those was to end the half so doesn't really count.
I think the issue was the second half, and our last 3 possessions. Key time to close out the game and our offence did next to nothing with it. Unfortunately reminded me of the Super Bowl a little, we had chances to close out the game and the offence stopped being effective. But the Super Bowl was definitely worse, as like you say we didn't possess the ball many times in this game.
In any case I'm not too worried about it, we played a top defence and the offence did a good job of not committing turnovers.
