How good is our offense, really?

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by barrett

Agreed. It was the most yards given up by GB at home since the 1980s. Our offense is plenty good if it does not give the ball away.

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.