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Originally Posted by Joshua
I agree that on Sunday our offense was good enough if you take away the turnovers. My only point was that before Sunday, we struggled mightily in both short yardage (only my opinion, no stats to back it up) and long yardage (0 for 29 on 3rd and 9 or longer) situations.
I guess the point I was trying to make was that I found it odd that we were a top 5 offense, but both our short yardage and long yardage success is not only not top 5, but arguably one of the worst in the league. While I haven't looked it up, I doubt any other team in the league had failed to convert a single 3rd and long through week 14. I also doubt few teams have struggled as much as the Texans in short yardage situations (I'm thinking of the several 3rd and 1s, 4th and 1s, and goalline stances where we have gotten stoned). I mean, I think we're well below average in both of these categories, which is peculiar for an offense that has put up the numbers we have.
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short yardage has been an issue at times...I think getting stopped on three straight carries from the 1 recently magnified it....although I didn't like the play calling there. Green got most of those carries, and I'm surprised that we haven't seen Sapp in a short yardage situation since Green did his trick. I don't think we've been that bad overall in short yardage....we've just struggled at key times making it seem worse over all.
3rd and long numbers are bad, but the fact is the league average isn't that great in 3rd and long. 0'fer isn't going to get it done, but it's probably not as bad as it sounds. Definitely needs improvement.