Where do people keep finding these obscure stats to bash our offense with?
There is only one stat that matters in football, points. Points = Wins. 3 and out percentage is meaningless when you WIN.
"Figures lie, and liars figure." A favorite quote of Brock Huard. Stats can be deceiving. Like "When player X gets 100 yards or more rushing, the team wins more often." Insinuating that all the team needs to do is get Player X 100 or more yards rushing to increase their win percentage. When in actuality, teams with the lead, run the ball more. Cart before the horse and such.
And those saying that Schottenheimer Senior was always an early out in the playoffs, know nothing about history or circumstances. He should have beat Denver and gone on to the Superbowl. Twice. But a fumble near the goal line ended their SB hopes.
Marty Schottenheimer takes the lowly Browns with Bernie Kosar, to the AFC Championship game, 2 Years in a Row. The same Bernie Kosar that started his NFL career completing 50% and 58% of his passes, Marty took to better than 60%.
If you look at Marty, he took poor teams to the playoffs. 3 times. But it's my humble opinion that he had poor support behind him. KC let him go, many say because of an unsubstantiated affair.
San Diego fired him after a 14 - 2 season. Because he lost to the Patriots in the playoffs...with Rivers in his first starting season. albeit, after he sat behind Drew Brees for 2 years. Still, first year starting for Philip, his first playoff game, against the Patriots, lost 24-21.
So much like his father, no matter how successful Brian Schottenheimer, is, people will bash him. And they will pull obscure statistics out to do so. Never mind that like his father, Brian has been to Back-to-Back AFC Championship games. Because this is a fan base that will bash OCs that don't throw the ball a lot, even though they may win a lot of games, or "only" win 1 Lombardi.
Here's a stat for you. On a team that led the league in rushing, 160 yards per game, and when (rarely) healthy on the OLine, beat the hell out of opposing defenses, our "Crappy" OC managed to have his offense score the 2nd most points in team history, behind only Mike Holmgren's 2005 team led by an elite OLine and MVP running back. 428 vs 452
The 2005 team 3rd down conversion rate? 39.6% 2018? 38.9% HORRIBLE! OMG!
Rushing YPA? 2005: 4.7 2018? 4.8 I don't see 2 HOF Olinemen on the 2018 team anywhere. Let alone an MVP RB.
Passing TD/INT: M. Hasselbeck: 24/9 R. Wilson: 35/7 Passing game wut?
And one more just for fun: TD% (TDs per Pass Attempt) 2005: 5.3% 2018: 8.2%
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... a/2018.htm
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... a/2005.htm