TOM BRADY, AaRON RODGERS AND THE NFL'S SCORING DUELY DECLINE

Scoring is down this season. Why? A good chunk of it can be traced back to the struggles of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Green Bay Packers and their all-time great quarterbacks.

When NFL owners and executives huddled earlier this month, one of the items on the agenda was exploring the roots of a potentially troubling trend. Scoring this season is down, and they couldn’t come up with a sound reason for why that is.

“Every statistical look that we’ve made, I’m not sure that we’ve found a good answer,” said Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, who chairs the league’s competition committee.