The difference is the degree of difficulty of those longer passes with the way defenses are going to play us. We become a dink and dunk offense and for that offense to work you need YAC to contribute. Josh is currently 26th in the NFL in completed air yards. IOW those 20 yard passes aren't happening that often. It's 0-5 yard passes that are happening now. To play that kind of game you are in a big hole with every mistake.
This last game Josh was in 3rd and long 10 out of 16 times. Most of those were between 9 and 12 yards to go. In actuality it was worse than that because some of those third and shorts were while we were chewing clock in the 4th.