01-06-2025, 09:20 AM
(01-05-2025, 10:13 PM)Nepa Wrote: Is there a reason you picked "top-5 scoring offense" as your barometer? I mean they're top-6. That is, 6th out of 32 teams. Not too shabby. And this is with a defense that doesn't exactly get the ball back for the offense. And an O-line that was mix and matching for much of the year due to injuries or lousy play.
Because Andy Dalton has had a 6th and a 7th scoring offense season with the Bengals. He never had a top-5 scoring offense with the Bengals.
Also people often use top-5 and top-10 as criteria thresholds, I feel like if I had chosen top-6 or top-7 as the threshold THAT would have been the weird thing to do. I guess you could make a case for top-8 being a non-weird threshold as that's the top 25%, but I don't really ever see anyone do that.
We've had the 7th scoring offense with Burrow twice. This year with him putting up as high of stats as we can probably ever expect him to put up in his career we had the 6th. The current offensive formula has hit it's ceiling and that ceiling is Joe Burrow never having had a better scoring offense than Andy Dalton. That's unacceptable.
Rookie Jayden Daniels just put up a top-5 scoring offense. So did Baker Mayfield. The Bills got rid of their #1 WR and still put up a top-5 scoring offense with Khalil Shakir and Keon Coleman at WR. Yet Joe Burrow putting up MVP numbers with a triple-crown winning WR can't crack into there.
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