You cant pass your way to the Super Bowl Trophy

[jks85]

can we get a cross check of the superbowl winners and the passing ranking. also super bowl/playoff appearances

and as vagrant said above the running/winning phenomenon is merely a correlation, but there is no evidence of cause. teams that win often run at the end to burn clock, though we are seeing more teams use short passing to do this as well

[rayzor]

The simple answer here is that teams that are ahead don't need to rack up yards through the air in order to beat the opposition even worse. So the teams that are strong on both sides of the ball are able to run the clock at full time when they get a big lead and try to pound the rock for first downs on the ground. Usually, teams that have QB's that rack up TONS of yardage are the teams that are competitive in games late into the 2nd half and need to move the ball through the air. If your team is an elite team, which most Super Bowl winners are, then in the 2nd half you're mostly trying to preserve a lead not build one.

foxball at it's finest...or something like that.

not only is it a passing league, it's turning into a cutthroat league.

screw trying to preserve a lead. the best way to preserve it is to grow it.

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

You can't pass your way to the Lombardi Trophy.

Signed,

1999 Rams

[NCstoner420]

I would like to point anyone that does not think you can pass your way to the Super Bowl to the first page of this thread and read my post.

[Raleighcat83]

Good teams run because they're winning, they don't win because they're running. Pass offense and pass defense have high correlation with winning.

[Delhommey]

Hey Bob when they run the ball 30 or more times THEY'RE WINNING 75% of their games!

Correlation =/= Causality