Day-After Notes: Offense Aims To Improve Red Zone, Third Downs, Turnovers

[News Bot]

With the defense playing at as high a level as it has all season for the Packers, the team's focus for improvement over the final three regular-season games falls on the offensive side, and specifically in three areas.

Red-zone efficiency, third-down efficiency and turnovers.

None of those categories has been a complete disaster for the Packers by any stretch, but as the team makes a push for an NFC playoff spot and hopefully a postseason run, areas like these that have shown some slippage lately need to be shored up the rest of the way.

Starting with the red zone, the Packers have scored touchdowns on 50 percent of their opportunities inside the opponent's 20-yard line this season (24-of-48). That ranks right in the middle of the pack, tied for 16th in the league.

But the offense's total red-zone chances are tied for sixth in the league and the number of missed opportunities over the last four games has been somewhat alarming. The Packers are just..

Source: Packers.com

 

[Green_Bay_Packers]

We need to improve in the red zone, A FG every time isnt going to help us win big matches.