What is going on with offensive football around the NFL?

It's a complicated question.

That's what we're going to try to tackle today on stealing bananas.

I'm Ben Gretsch.

You can find my stealing signals newsletter at ben gretsch.substack.com with me as always is Sean

Siegel.

You can find all of his great work at Road of His.

Stealing Signals subscribers will know that I tried to tackle this question a little bit

or wrote about how I don't really have clear answers in the introduction to this week's

stealing signals part two Sean I was just bouncing some ideas off you I had been really excited to

talk to you about it you've already had some great ideas as well there are a lot of layers to

peel back to this onion.

But I think the onion itself is, I mean, we should probably lay that groundwork, is I think

pretty well known, but scoring is down.

Offenses are not that fun.

I'm seeing tweets like, you know, the NFL's product sucks right now, which is hard to debate. We're seeing a lot of

unfun football games. Just a few years. Yeah, if you're not a fantasy manager who has games on the

line on Monday night, you're turning that off. I mean, that's a debacle. You don't want to see that.

And you think back just a couple of years to, I mean,

the one that always gets brought up the regular season game between the Rams and the Chiefs that

went, you know, 52-49 or something. Mahomes versus the, it was the Jared Gough, but, you know,

the first version of Sean McVe's offense that was so exciting. We had games like that in in the NFL not too long ago and they were

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