Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick worried about diminishing output of offence – NFL News
Buffalo Bills had remarkable start to the season offensively. However, things drastically changed after the bye week and now quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick smells a disaster if the team continues to play poorly.
Fitzpatrick has been affected the most by lack of productivity in the passing game and the team has suffered big losses during recent weeks due to failure of putting up good numbers. Talking about this issue, Fitzpatrick said:
“Unfortunately, the last month or so, we’re heading in the wrong direction, our production has dropped off and it’s not where we want it to be. For us, that’s disappointing. But we just have to continue to work and continue to try to fix the things that
we’re not doing well.”
There seems to be a striking difference in the productivity of the offence in the games before and after the bye week in terms of points scored as well third-down conversions.
The team has scored an average of 24.4 points per game in the first seven games, getting highest score in Week 7 game against New England Patriots with 30 points.
Meanwhile, the offence has ended up with an average of just 18 points per game in the last four contests.
This in turn has resulted in a drastic reduction in the third-down conversions with 42.3% of passes completed in starting seven games to 32% in the final four.
However, the area most affected is the red zone touchdown percentage. During the first seven contests, Bills converted 65% of the red zone passes into touchdowns.
On the other hand, the team had a meagre 30% of the red zone possession converted to touchdown.
A more prosperous no-huddle package could be the solution for all the offensive woes, but looking at the success of running game it is highly unlikely that no-huddle would be used more often. Talking about no-huddle package, Fitzpatrick said:
“We’ve done (no huddle) some but it’s been more revolving around the pass game and we’re trying to make sure we get the running game going. When you do no-huddle, sometimes it revolves too much around the pass game and we don’t want to get into that.”
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