Rabu, 27 Juni 2012

NFL Secret Revealed: It's a Passing League!

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It doesn’t verify an proficient to amount discover that the NFL is a expiration league. Most of the stars are the quarterbacks; the maximal plan choices seem to be the QBs and receivers; and modify defenses are weight up on players who crapper place push on the QB and those who crapper counterbalance the bigger, faster receivers.

While we constantly center that teams requirement to found the separate and hit a solidified streaming mettlesome to intend in the NFL, the expiration mettlesome seems to be the desirable artefact to intend in the modify regularize these days.

Last flavour there were 745 expiration TDs and 400 streaming TDs in NFL regular-season games. This was the ordinal instance in association story that there were 300-plus more expiration TDs than streaming TDs in a season.

The 2010 flavour saw 751 expiration TDs and 399 streaming TDs, a disagreement of 352. That was the maximal disagreement between the digit modes of opprobrious scoring in NFL history.

In 2011, the defending Super Bowl endorse Green Bay Packers had the maximal disagreement between expiration TDs and streaming TDs in the league. The Packers had 51 TDs via the expose and exclusive 12 on the ground, a disagreement of 39.

Here’s a countenance at the teams that had the large disagreement in expiration TDs and streaming TDs in 2011.

 

Team, Pass TDs/Rush TDs, Diff.

Green Bay: 51/12 +39

Detroit: 41/9 +32

New Orleans: 46/16 +30

Dallas: 33/5 +28

New England: 39/18 +21

Atlanta: 29/14 +15

Tennessee: 22/8 +14

New royalty Giants: 29/17 +12

Buffalo: 24/12 +12

Cleveland: 16/4 +12

New royalty Jets: 26/14 +12

Note: The Carolina Panthers were the exclusive aggroup terminal flavour to hit more streaming touchdowns that expiration TDs. The Panthers had 26 TDs streaming and 21 passing. The metropolis Seahawks had 15 streaming TDs and 15 expiration TDs.

As mentioned above, the NFL has had more expiration TDs than streaming TDs in a flavour every assemblage since 1956. There are currently figure NFL teams that hit had more expiration TDs than streaming TDs apiece flavour for decade or more years.

Leading the artefact are the Saints and the Packers. The Saints hit the long underway color of scoring more touchdowns by expiration than by streaming in a flavour for 25 straightforward seasons. The Packers hit finished it for 23 serial years.

Here are the teams with the underway long streaks of more expiration TDs than streaming TDs.

 

Team, Consecutive seasons with more transfer TDs than festinate TDs

New Orleans: 25

Green Bay: 23

Indianapolis: 17

Washington: 15

St. Louis: 13

Cincinnati: 11

Dallas: 11

Detroit: 11

Tampa Bay: 10

 

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