Texans' Offense: Respectable? Looking Up?
Back on October 23, the Chronicle's Emily Davis declared that things were looking up with the Texans offense (interestingly after the team's second worst offensive performance of the season in terms of yardage).
Since then, the Chronicle's more seasoned sportswriters have not gone quite so far as their colleague who admires the pretty pants and jerseys of high school football players, but even Richard Justice wrote the following:
The Texans are respectable. They're coming close.
Really?
The numbers suggest otherwise. I threw together a quick spreadsheet of offensive output using stats on NFL.com, and produced the following chart:
The chart doesn't show significant improvement over time in terms of net yardage. Rather, it shows slight improvement over the first two games (David Palmer was fired after the second game). However, the team's second worst output of the season came in Game 6. And it's important to keep in mind that slight improvement still has the Texans second-to-last in the NFL in net yardage, with an average of 215.9 yards per game. In contrast, the third-to-last team averages 242.4 yards per game, and the best team averages 391 yards per game.
The Texans' offense is, frankly, terrible. Statistics suggest it has not turned the corner just yet, as Emily Davis wrote. The offense has been hurt by injuries to be sure, and I don't mind anyone pointing that out. But these offensive numbers are really bad even after "slight improvement" from the first two games.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/20/05 11:15 | Sports | Technorati
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After tonight's terrible loss, Dick Justice is now complaining about the terrible offense.
His opinion changes more frequently than Tony Kornheiser's. No wonder ESPN lets him on that show.
Posted by Chris Elam @ 23:21 on 11/20/05
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