What lengths must one go to to be banned? Surely he must be getting close by now.

I really don't understand what your point is

What's it matter when the points come? If you have a defense holding teams to say 17 ppg and then I feel that as good as our offense is ranked (#2), we could put up 20(29.3) points even if they all came in the second half...

I see that "the analyst" is trying to make a point about the lack of consistency of the offense. But I believe what he is missing is that lack of consistency is even more pronounced in the defense.

I'm not going to break down scoring by halves. But let's dump last years games into a few rough buckets to see any trends. Three categories:

+ : 30 points or greater for offense, 20 points or fewer for defense
- : 20 points or fewer for offense, 30 points or greater for defense
= : between 20 and 30 points for both offense or defense.

Raiders: +-
Giants : -+
Falcons: +-
Chargers: +-
Panthers: +-
Chiefs: ==
Seahawks: =+
49ers: +=
Broncos: ==
Panthers: -=
Rams: +=
Lions: -=
Bucs: -+
Cardinals: +-
Bucs: +=
Falcons: +-

The offense went 9-4-3 (+,-,=) while the defense was 3-6-7. There were exactly 0 ++ games and exactly 0 -- games. As shown there were exactly 3 games where the Saints held the opposition to 20 points or less.

Let look at the distribution and records:

++ : 0
+= : 3 (3-0)
+- : 6 (3-3)
=+ : 1 (1-0)
== : 2 (0-2)
=- : 0
-+ : 2 (0-2)
-= : 2 (0-2)
-- : 0

So what can we see from the data?

1. The offense had to play well for the team to win. The team was 0-4 when the offense scored 20 or less.

2. Shootouts are a tossup (+-). And the team had more shootouts than anything else.

3. The majority of the losses (+=,==) happened when the defense gave up 21 or more points.

4. Productive offense and decent defense (+=,=+) are a winning formula (4-0 total)


Overall it seems that eliminating shootouts is the path forward. That means continuing the stand up a defense that can hold opponents to under 30 PPG while maintaining an offense than can score 30+ PPG. Moving 3-4 games from +- to += could make all the difference.

SFIAH

Go ahead and ban me because I hold "offensive genius" Sean Payton to the standard he set. I said it before he was smarter when he was married.

Will hmmm no one is going to ban you. B&G is a true Saints board and people are allowed to have opinions about the team that are not popular. Ive posted a couple but foreverfan is truely hated for his discrimination against dogs.
Id just say lay off the rum or have a rum and think before you post as an elitist know everything about SP and the club.
I think the problem some see here is your not willing to have a conversation, just impose your opinion with no room for talk. Which pretty much makes your Bid for the UN job of the USA a no go.
Your not the coach or even a line coach, and have no empathy for others in a chat.
I like you fine man, and could be totally wrong. Lord knows I thought JAVA was a joke when it came out and was going nowhere. I still blame that on you BTW.

No one wants to talk to someone that doesnt have empathy and wont listen with a definative agenda and ego, even if they are right. I would hate talking to God because he knows everything, it would suck. my opinions would be met with compassionate laughter. Though I could be wrong because that dog canon I made was more a barbacue than family fun.
I think we all know you care about the team, and thats important.