Big Passing Doesn't Equal Championships

[King of Kings]

With the explosion of passing yardage in 2011, it’s easy to assume that some pass-happy team with throw its way to a Super Bowl championship.


That would be a bad assumption.


Our corporate cousin Tom Curran of CSNNE.com recently pointed out something that quickly has become my favorite factoid of the week. The top 10 single-season passing yardage performances in NFL history came from men whose big numbers did not result in the biggest possible prize: a Super Bowl win.


Ditto for the top 20 single-season passing yardage performances.
And for the top 30.


In fact, it’s not until No. 34 on the list that the quarterback who generated big yardage won the Super Bowl — Peyton Manning in 2006, with 4,397. Next, at No. 35, Drew Brees and the Saints won the title in 2009, with Brees throwing for 4,388 yards.


Only two other Super Bowl winners appear in the top 100: Kurt Warner at No. 39 in 1999 (4,353) and Steve Young at No. 98 (3,969).


It’s too early to know what it exactly means, but it’s safe to say that guys who have generated big numbers in the regular season have seen their luck run out at some point in the postseason. For three of the top four single-season passing yardages (Dan Marino in 1984, Kurt Warner in 2001, and Tom Brady in 2007), the bottom fell out in the Super Bowl.

Big passing yards don’t correlate to championships | ProFootballTalk


Funny timing. Nonetheless let me just say to Mike Florio: "Thank you captain obvious."

[Crow]

Big Passing Championships ??

[Tobalaz]

Dude, it's a passing league.
If you believe anything else you're uneducated and unintelligent.
You call that journalism? What kind of two bit hack throws facts around like confetti expecting us to come to another conclusion that the one obvious and absolute truth.....
Passing league.

[Greythan]

Where's Shep?

Oh, and don't forget how crappy Peyton played in that playoff run. He was pretty horrid and they still won because (wait for it.....) they played the best overall team football that year.

[golfer704u]

Also not all the top yardage guys who NEVER even went to a Super Bowl.

[Enigmatic Evil]

Defense wins championships, you gotta run to set up the pass. The passing game alone will not win you a superbowl.

[Vegasdogg]

Originally Posted by Enigmatic Evil

The passing game alone will not win you a superbowl.

Passing is up, but the old stand by "defense wins championships" will never die!!!

Who ranked 1 and 2 last year? Oh that's right, the two teams playing in the big game!

The Packers were 10-6 last season and barely made the playoffs. Know what got them over the hump? James Starks! And the defense! Passing the ball was their bread and butter, but with no running game there were on fumes.

[hiwaygal]

for old times sake...

You guys are too cool;.................problem is seems you still do not get it.........OFFENSE wins.......especially Championships........

we got no OFFENSE so all I hear is more drafting defensive guys.............OH MY.....'

you cannot score you cannot win..............

is anybody listening???????????????????????????

[King of Kings]

Originally Posted by Enigmatic Evil

Defense wins championships,

Quoted for pure unadulterated truth. Once more....

Originally Posted by Enigmatic Evil

Defense wins championships,

Just in case it was missed....

Originally Posted by Enigmatic Evil

Defense wins championships,

The absolute truth. Never is it not true, never is it not the case. Always true. Always has, always will. It can be denied, it can be brushed off, it cannot however stop being a proven fact. Top 10 Defense wins Championships. Only worrying about passing the ball wins 8-8 and Wildcard berths unless you are Peyton Manning in which case you get to pass your way to 9 playoff losses out of 12 seasons.

[Shortie]

This is nothing but a troll post. Shep baiting is really getting boring.

[RalphieH_O_S]

The NFL only looks like a passing league, but really, you have to play defense, and you need to be able to run the ball. While passing has gone up, in yardage, attempts, TD's etc. The fact of the matter is, no one passed the ball better last year than the Pat's with Tom Brady, but they could run the ball, and they had no D, so they lost in the playoffs, if big passing = Championships, then Tommy Terrific should have twice as many rings, but he doesn't!

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