Week 10 Stat Comparison 2022/2023

[DenverChief]

1/2 way thru the season (9 games played) - Offensive Production with a slight drop (6.8 points per game average - about a TD a game and we ended 2 games with kneel downs in the red zone). Turnovers on offense seem to be a problem though - 1.8 per game average this year vs 1.3 last year. Defense though has really gone ham - 15.8 PPG average this year vs 25.2 last year. Significantly better plus 1.5 turnovers per game this year vs less than 1 last year.

After looking at this I feel much better about our team than I did before.

2022 / 2023

Record: 7-2 / 7-2

Points For: 270 / 208

Passing TD's: 26 / 17

Rushing TD's: 6 / 4

Passing Yards: 2,825 / 2,473

Rushing Yards: 983 / 934

Offensive Turnovers: 12 / 17


Points Against : 227 / 143

Passing TD's Allowed: 19 / 12

Rushing TD's Allowed: 5 / 3

Passing Yards Against: 2,236 / 1,584

Rushing Yards Against: 891 / 1,010

Defensive Turnovers: 8 / 13

Sacks: 27 / 31

[wazu]

Originally Posted by DenverChief

Because of our Defense.

Well, exactly. The game script for many NFL games requires offenses to open things up and sprint to the end zone in the 4th quarter of games. Many yards and points happen there. That's really not the game we've been playing. If our defense was just average, I would bet our offensive production would jump considerably. I don't think we'd be losing a bunch of games.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by wazu

2023 to me looks much better than 2022. At this point in the season my feeling is our defense pretty much is what it is. And ours is awesome. Offense on the other hand can keep improving. We have the QB and the coaching brain trust and the personnel aren't all that different from last year. (If anything, improved.)

Also some perspective, for all of our offensive "struggles", the Chiefs have the #8 offense in yards per game. And we really haven't been in any "shoot-out" games yet.

No one that actually cares about offense cares about "total yards per game." Probably the least useful metric in football. Just saying.

[wazu]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

No one that actually cares about offense cares about "total yards per game." Probably the least useful metric in football. Just saying.

When people say what an offense is ranked, that's the default standard for what they are referring to. It's definitely not useless as it at least indicates overall production. Points can be very misleading because of turnovers and short fields, etc.

Agree there are better measurements, but if you look at the top and bottom of just yardage rankings it meshes pretty well with what you would expect from each team. Good offenses near the top, bad offenses near the bottom.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by wazu

2023 to me looks much better than 2022. At this point in the season my feeling is our defense pretty much is what it is. And ours is awesome. Offense on the other hand can keep improving. We have the QB and the coaching brain trust and the personnel aren't all that different from last year. (If anything, improved.)

Also some perspective, for all of our offensive "struggles", the Chiefs have the #8 offense in yards per game. And we really haven't been in any "shoot-out" games yet.

Also, when we HAVE to score in the playoffs, I think Patrick will get it done. Dude dials it up like 5 notches in the postseason.

[DenverChief]

2022 / 2023

Record: 14-3 / 11-6

Points For: 496 (23.6 PPG Avg.) / 371 (17.6 PPG Avg.)

Passing TD's: 41 / 28

Rushing TD's: 18 / 9

Passing Yards: 5,250 / 4,383

Rushing Yards: 1,970 / 1,784

Offensive Turnovers: 24 / 32


Points Against : 369 (17.5 PPG Avg.) / 294 (14 PPG Avg.)

Passing TD's Allowed: 15 / 19

Rushing TD's Allowed: 10 / 10

TD's allowed by TO 1 / 3

TD's for by TO 1 / 2

Passing Yards Against: 5,777 / 5,220

Rushing Yards Against: 2,314 / 2,374

Defensive Turnovers: 25 / 23

Sacks: 55 / 57

[-King-]

That offensive downgrade is ugly. Wow