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Record-busting numbers

Changed rules results in changed offenses

The NFL keeps changing rules to favor offenses, and the result has been scoring production that we've seen seen before.

How much is too much? With the rules constantly getting tweaked in favor of offenses, scoring keeps going up and up.

At what point do yards and points become so cheap that the NFL becomes more like the NBA?

Personally, I like to see some defense. I thought the 49ers-Seahawks playoff game was a lot better than that first-round shootout between Kansas City and the Colts.

But the game has changed, and I don’t think the lower scores we saw in the past are coming back anytime soon.

Last year, teams averaged 375 points. That’s 76 more than the average from 20 years ago. In six of the past seven years, scoring has been higher than ever before in league history. It’s a new NFL.

AVERAGE POINTS SCORED EACH YEAR, 1993-2013
YearPoints
1993299
1994324
1995344
1996327
1997332
1998341
1999333
2000331
2001323
2002347
2003333
2004344
2005330
2006331
2007347
2008352
2009343
2010353
2011355
2012364
2013375

--Ian Allan

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