A common issue in recent seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offense has been a painful one: the all-important scoreboard. Surely you heard that discussion, with multiple 2023 coached simply stating, we’ve gotta score more points. While there are several factors that go into it, today’s goal is to look at the Steelers and new offensive coordinator Arthur Smith as a play caller (since 2019), and how they’ve stacked up across the NFL.
Here is the points per game (ppg) visual:
As we can see, Pittsburgh has largely been below league average in points per game during the span.