Got a question. When you said this,
But earlier you said,
Does that Titan's (7th) relate to the Texans' (8th) the way I think it does?
Those are Football Outsiders efficiency stats. Currently the Titans efficiency numbers are better than the Texans. Without completely understanding their proprietary stats it is likely due to: 1. Doing better against better defenses (TN over BAL); 2. The Texans offensive numbers went down because they struggled against the Raiders defense whose efficiency stats weren't very good before last week.
Early year numbers are very skewed because limited opponents.
The Titans offense numbers are odd because their passing numbers have been much more efficient than their running numbers.
The Texans offensive numbers are pretty balanced. (12th)/(14th) which ends up with an overall number that is higher relative to other NFL teams offensively, who are usually very good passing or running but not both.
Ravens only have 4 games. The Steelers aren't quite the Steelers this year for a variety of reasons including using traffic cones for an offensive line. The Rams are terrible this year. The Jets offense is pukey. They've had a bye week and they loss to the Titans. Very limited sample size.
The Texans defense actually had one of their better games against the Ravens last year. The Texans offense struggled but found themselves in the 4th quarter--Raven had trouble in a lot of 4th quarters last year. What killed the Texans last year was their special teams that game was TERRIBLE. Offense dug a hole but the special teams made it worse. They could never get the field flipped.