N/S Wild NFL Rushing Yardage Stat (1 Viewer)

[kcirdor]

Good everyone spent all their money to stop the pass, they won that battle when all the old Generals retired.. now we flank' em.

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

Through two weeks, 39% of all offensive yardage has come via the run.

The last time this happened?

1980.

The future is the past is now, new old man.

It comes full circle. Eventually i expect RB value to go up a bit, and I'd like to think that shift is happening because the quality of QB isn't what it was 15 years ago.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Yeah, like the others have said, defenses have adapted to a pass happy league. Very rarely do you see defenses run traditional base packages 3-4 & 4-3. Most NFL defenses run a 4-2-5 or 3-3-5 as their bases due to the speed and shotgun/pistol formations that Offenses run out of exclusively.

Not saying the NFL will ever go back to a heavy run dominate league like 1980’s and before, but OC’s would be smart to take advantage of smaller defenders and bully them forcing them to stop the run then go over the top like in the old days!

It's all cycles. I think either Belichick or Gruden said it's going to go back to that in time.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

What's really funny is, you want to know the DC who popularized the 4-2-5 and 3-3-5 formations moving the traditional Strong Safety down to the line and deploying 4 athletic Defensive Backs in the secondary?

He's the current Saints Head Coach.

I thought Rob Ryan did that before Allen re-joined our team? I know he was doing 3 safety sets and people thought that was innovative.

 

[BreesusSaves]

I thought Rob Ryan did that before Allen re-joined our team? I know he was doing 3 safety sets and people thought that was innovative.

Ryan did it for one season then Payton forced him to go to a standard 4-3-4 because Payton was obsessed with trying to be the Seahawks defense.

Allen took Ryan's 4-2-5 and basically perfected it. Ryan's 4-2-5 was from necessity due to lack of talent at LB, Allen said "We're going to specifically build into the 4-2-5 look".

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Ryan did it for one season then Payton forced him to go to a standard 4-3-4 because Payton was obsessed with trying to be the Seahawks defense.

Allen took Ryan's 4-2-5 and basically perfected it. Ryan's 4-2-5 was from necessity due to lack of talent at LB, Allen said "We're going to specifically build into the 4-2-5 look".

Then he didn't create the idea, someone else did, but he then perfected it. Either way, that's cool.

 

[BreesusSaves]

Then he didn't create the idea, someone else did, but he then perfected it. Either way, that's cool.

Allen's commitment to the 4-2-5 is what popularized the style as an actual base defense. Ryan did it for a single season then it went away for three consecutive seasons. No clue if Ryan would have continued or tried to go back to a traditional look on his own without Payton meddling, but it wasn't until DA had a couple seasons of success that you started to see more and more 4-2-5 and 3-3-5 looks as teams were searching for ways to handle the 3 WR sets and receiving TEs.