You know, there's always the discussion about, okay, what's the real key to offense?

And a lot of times you'll hear it's winning on first down,

because first down will set it up for you the rest of, you know,

the series of downs and hopefully give you another series of downs.

Carolina yesterday was able to run the ball so well with Rico Dowdell that if you look at

their scoring drives, like their first one when they got a field goal, they only had to face one

third down and they didn't pick it up and they had to settle for a field goal. And that was, you know, seven plays or so.

Their next drive, which was a touchdown, they never faced a third down.

They never went to third down on it.

These other scoring drives, another one in the fourth quarter that made it 27, 24.

They only faced one third down.

It was third and three.

And ETN ran for five yards.

The one that put them up 1713.

They only had, or I'm sorry, they trailed 1713.

They only had one third down and that was at the end of it.

And that was after that crazy Leggett play that got them in bad down and distance.

If they didn't shoot themselves in the foot, they rarely had to even go to third down against Dallas yesterday.

Yeah.

That's how bad the defense is.

And this is not Patrick Mahomes or, you know, the lion's offense or name an offense.

It doesn't really matter.

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