NFC South stat

SWJJ said

There's something like 10 teams that score fewer points per game than we do.

The board is overly dramatic about our underperforming offense.

While we do have the talent to be much better than we have been so far this season, our offense if not even close to being the worst in the league.

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Atlanta, New England and the Giants are the only three teams that have fewer points per drive than the Saints. Points per drive takes out defensive scores and ignores drives that were ended with a kneel or running plays prior to a half. This just leaves the real offense. What it doesn't account for is starting field position. I don't have those stats but it sure feels like our average starting position has been quite good given our turnover margin and defensive play. Translation, our offense sucks.

You can also break it down to points per play. Compare our current numbers to 2022 season numbers and we have a really bad offense. It gets even worse at home where we are about 10 deviations below the next worse team and sitting dead last. We are really, really bad.
https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/points-per-play
Good news, we really can't get much worse offensively and if we fix our redzone issues we can climb much closer to average.

Bad news, we can't expect different results with the same actions. Something has to change in order to expect different results. We changed a lot of personnel this offseason. Now we need to change the play calling. If that doesn't work then we need to cut the tree down and plant a new one.