This year, the NFL is having one of its lowest scoring seasons in the past two decades. The main reason is that NFL defenses have gone all-in on the bend don't break, two-deep style, trying to limit the chunk plays and make teams march the ball down the field. More than half of passing plays this year are coming against two-deeps, and that is limiting the gains and points. 

The NYT had a good synopsis of this ($) - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/sports/football/nfl-scoring-offense-d...

But you don't need to read it to know what I am talking about. NFL games are pretty boring right now, and filled with 5-8 yard plays and punts and field goals. 

Why does this matter to us? It's what Michigan is using against OSU, with its former Ravens coordinators. And it's what Northwestern used in 2020 and Notre Dame used effectively for most of the game this year. It's what any team with decent coaching and talent will use against the Ryan Day offense: here, get your 500 yards. But you are going to kick FGs and have hard decisions on 4th and 3, and score 27 points the hard way.

The antidote to this is running the ball, which NFL teams stopped doing some years ago, and now they have to recalibrate to do, or have a running QB - not necessarily a Lamar, but a guy who can run around and when the play breaks down, get 15 with his legs like Hurts or Mahomes or Allen. 

Anyway, this is what so many people on here have been saying. But it almost feels like Day thinks he is running a modern NFL offense, and in the meanwhile - the NFL changed because most of the defenses are running two-deeps and keeping everything in front of them.