Factoid
Moishe Steigmann asked about teams like Green Bay, Detroit and Dallas – who scored the vast majority of their touchdowns passes. When you get a team like this, does that mean it likely will have the same kind of ratio the following season?
Or when we see that Dallas scored 33 touchdown passes and only 5 touchdown runs, should we really treat that offense as if it had scored 28 TD passes and 10 TD runs – a more realistic number.
Well, below are the teams of the past. These are the 36 teams since the move to the 16-game schedule that have scored four times as many touchdowns on passes rather than runs. I’m not showing the lopsided numbers from those years, though. This is how they did the NEXT year.
On average, these teams scored 23.1 TD passes and 11.2 TD runs – not much more imbalanced than what you would expect from a regular offense.
PASS-HEAVY TEAMS -- THE NEXT YEAR
PA RU Year
16 19 1983 New England
18 9 1984 Buffalo
19 6 1984 Philadelphia
13 15 1986 New Orleans
29 16 1987 Miami
19 13 1987 Raiders
21 18 1988 San Francisco
22 15 1988 NY Giants
24 14 1989 Washington
15 18 1990 Seattle
17 12 1991 Green Bay
33 3 1992 Atlanta
28 4 1993 Atlanta
25 8 1994 Atlanta
16 15 1995 Washington
29 7 1995 Cincinnati
25 14 1996 Cincinnati
18 10 1996 Rams
34 10 1996 Ravens
39 9 1996 Green Bay
22 8 1996 NY Jets
23 8 1996 Cardinals
35 9 1997 Green Bay
29 9 1997 Raiders
23 9 1998 New England
23 13 1999 Green Bay
21 10 2000 Seattle
12 6 2000 Chicago
27 15 2002 Philadelphia
24 9 2004 Tampa Bay
31 18 2005 Colts
20 11 2005 Green Bay
18 10 2005 Minnesota
17 12 2006 Cardinals
23 10 2010 Chicago
24 12 2011 Buffalo
—Ian Allan
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Posted by Moishe Steigmann | May. 18 at 08:34 AM
Thank you, Ian!