Ahman Green vs. Rick Smith

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Originally Posted by dadmg

Even with the lingering injuries to Angry Dre and the slow recovery of Owen Daniels, the passing offense had very little, if any drop-off. Here's the Texans offense the last four years in several ranking systems.

Football Outsiders DVOA
2010 26.1% (2nd) Passing: 34.4% (4th) Rushing: 22.3% (3rd)
Most teams would kill for their offense to have an "off-year" like we had last year. The problem is that when teams got to face our pass defense they looked just as good

My main contention is the offense sucked in the opening QTRs of games and most of those overall stats came when they were playing catch up. Statistically they were at the top, but I'm not so sure that tells the whole story as to the effectiveness of the offense - especially in the early stages of the game. IMO, throughout the year, they were subpar early in the games when it was close (obviously) and the crappy defensive play wasn't so much a factor. I looked around briefly and I can't seem to find a breakdown, but I wish I could find the NFL 2010 qtr-by-qtr scoring stats. I'd be interested to see where the Texans ranked in the 1rst and 2nd quarters.