No, not really. It really depends on how each team's offence matches up against the other's defence, as I see it. (If you're talking strictly matchup handicapping...which in itself is still only part of the overall picture). Team X may score 30 pts every week for 4 weeks in a row...but maybe they were playing against teams that are all poor against the pass. Now they play a team that gives up just as many points as the previous opponents, but their weakness is defending the run, not the pass. That's a whole different comparison. Maybe Team X doesn't have much of a running game. But just going by pts scored and allowed (or "points per minute", as you are looking at it), you could easily come to the wrong conclusion.