Ahman Green vs. Rick Smith

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Originally Posted by popanot

Of course, Foster was awesome anytime/anywhere, but the rest of the offense had a subpar year, IMO.

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)
2009 13.2% (11th) Passing: 38.2% (8th) Rushing: -11.2% (31st)
2008 11.0% (14th) Passing: 28.2% (11th) Rushing: 4.7% (16th)
2007 2.0% (21st) Passing: 15.0% (14th) Rushing: -1.2% (16th)

Points
2010 390 (9th)
2009 388 (10th)
2008 366 (17th)
2007 379 (12th)

YPA
2010 7.6 (5th)
2009 8.1 (6th)
2008 8.1 (2nd)
2007 7.4 (7th)

YPC
2010 4.8 (3rd)
2009 3.5 (31st)
2008 4.3 (13th)
2007 3.8 (24th)

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