Can boring football be winning football?
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What's the most boring team you've ever seen win a championship?
What's the most boring team you've ever seen win a championship?
If you favor a team then winning trumps style, etc. IMHO.
As a non-fan of either team, I remember the following Champions being 'boring'. My bet is their fans found them exciting:
Baltimore Ravens
NY Giants during the Ottis Anderson days
Maybe some of the Steelers' teams.
Just off the top of my head....................
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I don't think anyone who is a fan of the Cleveland Browns would care if they were boring and wore pink tutu's. Winning is winning.
Question is can you build a team and win with no passing game? In this day and age, you have to pass the ball well and have a stud defense. Passing isn't boring.
Oh sure we could talk all day about the Baltimore Ravens, but after mediocre years, they're knocking back on the door again with a QB who can pass.
Would I take boring football and a winner? Of course. Is that realistically going to happen? I don't think so.
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What's the most boring team you've ever seen win a championship?
If you favor a team then winning trumps style, etc. IMHO.
As a non-fan of either team, I remember the following Champions being 'boring'. My bet is their fans found them exciting:
Baltimore Ravens
NY Giants during the Ottis Anderson days
Maybe some of the Steelers' teams.
Just off the top of my head....................
What he said, pretty much. Fans of "boring" teams don't find them boring. I think both the Steelers and Ravens play a lot of dull games... but when I'm watching teams I don't care about, I wanna be entertained, I guess.
It's harder now to win boring, I think. Someone smart said it's tougher to sustain drives these days, which is actually why many defenses just keep the play in front of them and expect turnovers or penalties. And playing against all these turbo-powered pass offenses, you really can't run your way back from a two or three score deficit.
Most short passing games are designed to make short throws into long gains, not to just throw 4-yard hooks. I think the WCO is a blast to watch, actually.
If you favor a team then winning trumps style, etc. IMHO.
As a non-fan of either team, I remember the following Champions being 'boring'. My bet is their fans found them exciting:
Baltimore Ravens
NY Giants during the Ottis Anderson days
Maybe some of the Steelers' teams.
Just off the top of my head....................
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I don't think anyone who is a fan of the Cleveland Browns would care if they were boring and wore pink tutu's. Winning is winning.
Question is can you build a team and win with no passing game? In this day and age, you have to pass the ball well and have a stud defense. Passing isn't boring.
Oh sure we could talk all day about the Baltimore Ravens, but after mediocre years, they're knocking back on the door again with a QB who can pass.
Would I take boring football and a winner? Of course. Is that realistically going to happen? I don't think so.
I don't think anyone who is a fan of the Cleveland Browns would care if they were boring and wore pink tutu's. Winning is winning.
Question is can you build a team and win with no passing game? In this day and age, you have to pass the ball well and have a stud defense. Passing isn't boring.
Oh sure we could talk all day about the Baltimore Ravens, but after mediocre years, they're knocking back on the door again with a QB who can pass.
Would I take boring football and a winner? Of course. Is that realistically going to happen? I don't think so.
The reason I brought it up was all of the grumbling over various prospective coaches and how conservative (boring) their offenses were likely to be. It sounded to me like quite a few people care a lot about that sort of thing.
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I don't think anyone who is a fan of the Cleveland Browns would care if they were boring and wore pink tutu's. Winning is winning.
Question is can you build a team and win with no passing game? In this day and age, you have to pass the ball well and have a stud defense. Passing isn't boring.
Oh sure we could talk all day about the Baltimore Ravens, but after mediocre years, they're knocking back on the door again with a QB who can pass.
Would I take boring football and a winner? Of course. Is that realistically going to happen? I don't think so.
I don't think anyone who is a fan of the Cleveland Browns would care if they were boring and wore pink tutu's. Winning is winning.
Question is can you build a team and win with no passing game? In this day and age, you have to pass the ball well and have a stud defense. Passing isn't boring.
Oh sure we could talk all day about the Baltimore Ravens, but after mediocre years, they're knocking back on the door again with a QB who can pass.
Would I take boring football and a winner? Of course. Is that realistically going to happen? I don't think so.
What he said, too. Ravens used to have up and down years, in the playoffs and then 6-10. Now that they have a passing game, they've been to the playoffs three straight years. The Vikings were .500 and once a fringy playoff participant... then with Favre, they had a first round bye. The only way you can compete year after year without a serious quarterback and a serious passing game is if everybody else agrees to play that way, too.
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I don't think anyone who is a fan of the Cleveland Browns would care if they were boring and wore pink tutu's. Winning is winning.
Question is can you build a team and win with no passing game? In this day and age, you have to pass the ball well and have a stud defense. Passing isn't boring.
Oh sure we could talk all day about the Baltimore Ravens, but after mediocre years, they're knocking back on the door again with a QB who can pass.
Would I take boring football and a winner? Of course. Is that realistically going to happen? I don't think so.
The reason I brought it up was all of the grumbling over various prospective coaches and how conservative (boring) their offenses were likely to be. It sounded to me like quite a few people care a lot about that sort of thing.
The reason I brought it up was all of the grumbling over various prospective coaches and how conservative (boring) their offenses were likely to be. It sounded to me like quite a few people care a lot about that sort of thing.
It is a cool thread and a great question. I don't want an offense that right off the bat is boring or conservative. However I have heard a few members talk about how our players were just plain poor ballers, and it was not Daboll's fault we were boring. Chicken or the Egg?
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What's the most boring team you've ever seen win a championship?
What's the most boring team you've ever seen win a championship?
the first Superbowl team of the Parcells era was rather bland,,,but to Parcells credit...he didnt fear taking chances on 4th down.
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In another thread, longhorn said he'd gladly take Carrot Top as a coach if it meant a division championship. I also read moans and groans about prospective coaches and their conservative styles. To me this begs the question in the topic title: Can conservative football be winning football? Would we care, or is winning enough?
I'm not sure I can remember a winning team that was boring.
You may want to ask that to the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. I think they went 3 games or so in a row where they won by strictly kicking field goals. Then again their defense was sick! Boring or not... JUST WIN BABY!
You may want to ask that to the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. I think they went 3 games or so in a row where they won by strictly kicking field goals. Then again their defense was sick! Boring or not... JUST WIN BABY!
The 2000 Ravens went 5 consecutive games without scoring a td. How's that for mind numbing offensive boredom?
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