Neither the total yards nor the passing completion percentage, nor the total plays per game are the appropriate measurements to gauge how effective the offense is. Ever since peewee football, we have been taught that that main goal of the offense is to score touchdowns. That should be the ultimate measuring stick. Usually, in a healthy offense, the yards, the total plays, etc will accumulate in conjunction with scoring more and more touchdowns. As such, spend less time worrying about that crap and spend more time scrutinizing our ultimate problem. And that would be only scoring 15ppg against power five teams. No matter how short our list of problems is, by not being able to score TDs, which is the main offensive goal of football, our list of problems might as well be long. We're going to lose games that we shouldn't and we're going to sacrifice our exceptional play in other areas for a mediocre season.

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Posted by AUbagman

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Posted on 10/5/16 at 3:49 pm to jangalang

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Neither the total yards nor the passing completion percentage, nor the total plays per game are the appropriate measurements to gauge how effective the offense is.

It's as if you totally disregarded the last part of my post.

Regardless, the main goal is scoring more points than the competition, and yes, even field goals add to that total. Of course a TD is preferable, but for Christ's sake, the offense is young, there are going to be growing pains in finding an identity.

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