Bengals Winning Formula on Offense this Year

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(12-22-2021, 07:00 PM)N_B Wrote: You should take the L, or just do more research

It kind of cracks me up that people look at such a simplistic, irrelevant stat and try to correlate something.

The defense this year is a huge part of why the team is 8-6 at this point. 

If you take the defensive scores from each game this year and put them in the same weeks for last years games, the Bengals have a 7-7 record at this same point last year. If you take the Bengals average for PA this year and plug it in every week for last year...the Bengals have the exact same 7-7 record at this time last year. Way better than the 3-10-1 record they actually had. 

21.6 PPG on defense this year. 26.5 PPG last year. 5 more points per game. Give them the same PPG for this year and this years record is 6-8. In those 6 wins Burrow attempted 27, 29, 38, 34, 29 and 24 passes. 

Number of runs vs throws, to try and correlate wins and losses this year or any year is silly.