NFL points per game. We're down to 43.6 last season. In 2020, 49 and a half points per game.

For the first time in my lifetime as an adult, rushing plays, Tej, were positive EPA plays.

Just not a quarterback rush, not a toss, not just rushes in general. We're positive EPA.

Many complex reasons for this, many, many, right? But I will, I will start here with you.

Do we think that that trend is going to continue in the 2025 NFL season, that passing

yards per play is going to keep going down, rushing yards per play is going to keep going up. Rushing yards per play is going to keep going up.

What is your baseline opinion?

Yeah, I do think it's definitely very interesting to follow this trend of the past couple

years where you had the 2020 and 2021 seasons where passing were just like so dominant.

Like there were so many good quarterback, so many

good passing offenses. That was like really the only path to make it far in the postseason

was to have a good pass offense. And now you've seen a little bit of a drawback in that sense

of like you mentioned, like the Russian game being a little bit more important, you know, passing being

down in general in terms of just like the yards per pass play. That's happening. And I do think that

we see it actually jump a little bit in 2025 back to where, you know, it was earlier just because

I think we've seen a lot of teams start to make more investments in the run game and, you know, it was earlier just because I think we've seen a lot of teams start to make more

investments in the run game.

And, you know, that's both rush offense and rush defense.

And I just think that when we see, you know, investments being made on that side of the

ball, like there could be more of a focus in like stopping the run per se in 2025,

which means that it should be a little bit

easier to pass the ball this season as well.

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