TRICH traded to colts
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Couch, the top teams in Passer Rating are basically the playoff teams every single year. Running the ball super well or a lot in today's league correlates with virtually nothing.
Go over the past five years and you'll see there are usually only one or two outliers between top passing teams and the playoff teams. It's uncanny. I'd been writing about it for ten years before Peter King mentioned it a couple years ago.
Running the ball a lot in today's league generally means you don't have a great quarterback... rather than meaning you do have a great running back. Teams with great quarterbacks in a passing league usually throw too much for a back to pile up yardage.
Yeah, the Seahawks, Chiefs, and Niners are successful exceptions. Totally acknowledge that.
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Couch, the top teams in Passer Rating are basically the playoff teams every single year. Running the ball super well or a lot in today's league correlates with virtually nothing.
Go over the past five years and you'll see there are usually only one or two outliers between top passing teams and the playoff teams. It's uncanny. I'd been writing about it for ten years before Peter King mentioned it a couple years ago.
Running the ball a lot in today's league generally means you don't have a great quarterback... rather than meaning you do have a great running back. Teams with great quarterbacks in a passing league usually throw too much for a back to pile up yardage.
Yeah, the Seahawks, Chiefs, and Niners are successful exceptions. Totally acknowledge that.
Couch, the top teams in Passer Rating are basically the playoff teams every single year. Running the ball super well or a lot in today's league correlates with virtually nothing.
Go over the past five years and you'll see there are usually only one or two outliers between top passing teams and the playoff teams. It's uncanny. I'd been writing about it for ten years before Peter King mentioned it a couple years ago.
Running the ball a lot in today's league generally means you don't have a great quarterback... rather than meaning you do have a great running back. Teams with great quarterbacks in a passing league usually throw too much for a back to pile up yardage.
Yeah, the Seahawks, Chiefs, and Niners are successful exceptions. Totally acknowledge that.
Nobody is disagreeing with the fact that playoffs teams tend to have great QBs.
What I, and the stats, am (are?) saying is that you need to be balanced. Passing the ball 70% of the time is rarely going to get you to the postseason. Sure, the NFL is a "passing league" as you love to say but, like I pointed out, the most successful teams this season are operating at around 55/45 pass/run.
Some games you may have to throw the ball 50 times. Other games you may have to throw it 15. Your game should be dictated by who you are playing. A good coach exploits the weaknesses of other teams and uses that as an advantage.
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That SOUNDS right... and logical... but the truth is a lot of pass-junkie teams who can't run the ball very well have been going to and winning Super Bowls over the last 5-7 years. Some teams that literally couldn't run the ball at all. The Packers won it behind Rodgers and a shit running game. Manning's second Super Bowl was with an anemic running game. Warner and Brady and Peyton all went to Super Bowls with bad running games. Not so-so... bad.
Again, it isn't preferable. And most teams that are really, REALLY bad at running the ball find a way in the playoffs or suffer for it (like the Saints the year after the Super Bowl). But most teams get carried through January by their quarterback.
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Shep....why don't you try actually looking up those stats rather than post what you FEEL is correct? Run pass ratio for the last 10 years of Superbowl winners hasn't exceeded 40/60. Whether they win because they're more efficient at passing is a different argument than how much they run the ball. You are a master at stating the obvious....everyone knows passing moves the ball farther than running. But successful teams still run.
Stop arguing with yourself about a point no one is contending. Discussions don't occur with oneself....
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That SOUNDS right... and logical... but the truth is a lot of pass-junkie teams who can't run the ball very well have been going to and winning Super Bowls over the last 5-7 years. Some teams that literally couldn't run the ball at all. The Packers won it behind Rodgers and a shit running game. Manning's second Super Bowl was with an anemic running game. Warner and Brady and Peyton all went to Super Bowls with bad running games. Not so-so... bad.
Again, it isn't preferable. And most teams that are really, REALLY bad at running the ball find a way in the playoffs or suffer for it (like the Saints the year after the Super Bowl). But most teams get carried through January by their quarterback.
That SOUNDS right... and logical... but the truth is a lot of pass-junkie teams who can't run the ball very well have been going to and winning Super Bowls over the last 5-7 years. Some teams that literally couldn't run the ball at all. The Packers won it behind Rodgers and a shit running game. Manning's second Super Bowl was with an anemic running game. Warner and Brady and Peyton all went to Super Bowls with bad running games. Not so-so... bad.
Again, it isn't preferable. And most teams that are really, REALLY bad at running the ball find a way in the playoffs or suffer for it (like the Saints the year after the Super Bowl). But most teams get carried through January by their quarterback.
In 2010, the year the Packers won the Super Bowl, they finished 14th in passing percentage, throwing the ball 57% of the time. Their opponent, Pittsburgh, threw the ball 52% of the time.
Peyton Manning's Super Bowl run in 2006 was at the helm of the 14th ranked team in passing percentage, same as Rodgers. The Colts threw the ball 55% of the time that season. His second Super Bowl run (the one they lost), had the Colts finish 1st in passing but I'll get to that in a bit.
In their 2007 Super Bowl season, New England also finished 14th in passing percentage, passing the ball 55% of the time. In their 2011 Super Bowl run the Patriots again finished 14th in passing percentage.
Three of your four examples are three of my best examples.
Here's a run down of each Super Bowl teams passing percentage for the past 5 years:
(20) Baltimore 55% - (30) San Fran 48%
(9) NY Giants 60% - (14) New England 58%
(14) Green Bay 57% - (28) Pittsburgh 52%
(24) New Orleans 55%- (1) Indianapolis 61%
(23) Pittsburgh 54%- (1) Arizona 63%
The winning teams (on the left) were all ranked closer to the median than their opponents, the only exception being New England. In both the 2007 and 2011 seasons (both Super Bowl years), the Patriots finished 14th in passing percentage but still lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl.
Yes, passing is crucial. Having a good quarterback is a given, But balance leads to the Lombardi more than anything.
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Order the yellow jacket, hire the bust artist and smelt the bronze.
its amazing that two teams were willing to give this guy a #1. Colts got swindled on this one.
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its amazing that two teams were willing to give this guy a #1. Colts got swindled on this one.
No kidding, I am so glad we recouped most of what we spent for him, and had we waited any longer, we would never have gotten a 1st. This may very well be the balls out move that changed our future.
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Trich had 3.0 ypc. 20 carries, 60 yards. We robbed Indie.
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but only need 334 carries for a 1000 yd season...
just shy of 21 touches per game...
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but only need 334 carries for a 1000 yd season...
just shy of 21 touches per game...
The idea of a 1000 yd season started with a 12 game season. To get a 1000 in 16 games just don't seem to have that much meaning to me. Maybe it gives the talking heads something to yap about but it just don't seem that significant anymore.
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I really hate your crap videos and your stupid female-less house
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
This thread will never die. that being said...bye tritch good luck but I'm glad the Browns got a 1 for you.
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So i shouldn't hit play?
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This guy is a fuck.
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I really hate your crap videos and your stupid female-less house
I personally like the curtains! I think he's going for the crack house look... althogh its a tough look to pull off he makes it look effortless.I really hate your crap videos and your stupid female-less house
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It's clear what we're dealing with here.
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