Any time you're watching football with a group of people, there's always one person yelling something along the lines of, “You aren't going to win if you keep kicking field goals!” when a drive stalls out in the red zone. Unlike some of the things that get yelled at televisions during football games, this holds some truth—red-zone performance matters.
However, red-zone performance is very noisy at the team level, which is something PFF's Timo Riske covered earlier this week. In other words, just because a team performed well in the red zone last year, it doesn't mean that they'll repeat that performance this season.