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Defensive additions offset offensive changes

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 8, 2004

The typical NFL team scored 20.8 points a game last season. In the 12 AFC East divisional games, teams averaged 15. No wonder brilliant offensive minds find better success elsewhere as offensive coordinators. Only once last season did an AFC East game reach the league average for points scored, that being a 23-21 Dolphins victory over the Jets on Dec. 28. AFC East "shootouts" are scores like 21-10 or 19-13. Touchdowns are so hard to come by in this division that one third of the games featured ...

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