What we learned after this year's SB?

[Cowboyny]

-Complementary football is very important, all three phases matter. Good teams play off of one another. Seattle struggled offensively, but they never turned over the football, play field position game and relied on their defense.

-One team was effective at running the football, where the other became one dimensional. This allowed Seattle defense to control the game.

-Modern defense isn't star driven, it is more about marrying all positional groups together to play as one. Simulated pressures, forcing QB to make quick decisions into tight windows. Maye struggled making those quick reads that had him holding onto the football to long. Darnold on the other hand adjusted and got the football out of his hands. Zone coverages are the new trend and are here to stay.

-Offensive Line matters. New England playing two rookies on the left side got exposed.

 

[John813]

I also think it shows you don't need to follow the offensive first mindset for head coach. For years most teams would want to hire that OC "guru" to follow the McVay/Rams blueprint.
For every Shanahan or possiblty Ben Johnson, there were more Gase/McDaniel/other failed OCs.

Hire the best candidate to lead the 53.

MacDonald was a former DC, whose team traded off a "star" WR in Metcalf and signed a solid QB in Darnold and they win the Superbowl.
Of course they had a legit defense, but they focused on defense to be their #1 punch when some teams just focus on offense. Found a QB that has an arm, and learned how to bus drive when needed without hitting pot holes. Good running game that had a 1-2 punch til Z.C. went out.

There's a trend some teams just want to always follow. Some tried the 2 TE attack after the Pats. No one could really pull it off. some tried to find the OC to be the HC and score more points.

The teams that can buck the trend can surprise most teams when their defense can confuse the QB or shutdown the #1 WR.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

Build a great defense and you can win a Super Bowl with a bus driver at QB

 

[Cowboyny]

I also think it shows you don't need to follow the offensive first mindset for head coach. For years most teams would want to hire that OC "guru" to follow the McVay/Rams blueprint.
For every Shanahan or possiblty Ben Johnson, there were more Gase/McDaniel/other failed OCs.

Hire the best candidate to lead the 53.

MacDonald was a former DC, whose team traded off a "star" WR in Metcalf and signed a solid QB in Darnold and they win the Superbowl.
Of course they had a legit defense, but they focused on defense to be their #1 punch when some teams just focus on offense. Found a QB that has an arm, and learned how to bus drive when needed without hitting pot holes. Good running game that had a 1-2 punch til Z.C. went out.

There's a trend some teams just want to always follow. Some tried the 2 TE attack after the Pats. No one could really pull it off. some tried to find the OC to be the HC and score more points.

The teams that can buck the trend can surprise most teams when their defense can confuse the QB or shutdown the #1 WR.

This was the first yr in over two decades where we saw two defensive lead teams make it to the SB. Yes, defense is very important, but the best overall teams usually win. Rams for example had their Special Teams unit prevent them for beating the Seahawks, as that was a problem all season all and it finally came back to bite them.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

-Complementary football is very important, all three phases matter. Good teams play off of one another. Seattle struggled offensively, but they never turned over the football, play field position game and relied on their defense.

-One team was effective at running the football, where the other became one dimensional. This allowed Seattle defense to control the game.

-Modern defense isn't star driven, it is more about marrying all positional groups together to play as one. Simulated pressures, forcing QB to make quick decisions into tight windows. Maye struggled making those quick reads that had him holding onto the football to long. Darnold on the other hand adjusted and got the football out of his hands. Zone coverages are the new trend and are here to stay.

-Offensive Line matters. New England playing two rookies on the left side got exposed.

And defence still wins championships

 

[SwagSurfer]

Nothing. Defense has been winning championships forever.

 

[SpaceCowboy99]

You don't need 2 - 1A receivers to win a Superbowl. Neither of their star receivers were big factors in this game.

 

[sunalsorises]

Drake Maye might not be that good.

 

[big dog cowboy]

What we learned after this year's SB?

Defense still wins championships.

 

[nhcowboyfan]

Another point to building a well-rounded team. You don't need to pay $30 million dollars to two receivers to have a decent offense.

 

[Chuck 54]

-Complementary football is very important, all three phases matter. Good teams play off of one another. Seattle struggled offensively, but they never turned over the football, play field position game and relied on their defense.

-One team was effective at running the football, where the other became one dimensional. This allowed Seattle defense to control the game.

-Modern defense isn't star driven, it is more about marrying all positional groups together to play as one. Simulated pressures, forcing QB to make quick decisions into tight windows. Maye struggled making those quick reads that had him holding onto the football to long. Darnold on the other hand adjusted and got the football out of his hands. Zone coverages are the new trend and are here to stay.

-Offensive Line matters. New England playing two rookies on the left side got exposed.

I agree with almost all of this, but while having all three levels of defense play together and know where they are supposed to be, along with technique, is important, let’s not pretend that what we saw wasn’t about stars. Seattle’s defense is littered with star players, not average joes. They have 2-3 rotational guys who could start for us. CB Gonzalez is a big reason NE wasn’t blown out.

That said, it was impressive to watch well coached defenses.

 

[visionary]

Drake Maye might not be that good.

IS not that good

 

[visionary]

Nothing surprising

Team duscipline
Good QB who wont turn the ball over
Great defense
Great run game

We are 0/4

 

[Chuck 54]

Build a great defense and you can win a Super Bowl with a bus driver at QB

I think the odds of that happening are very slim. First, Darnold is no bus driver. Unlike Maye, he had to outduel some big time QBs and high powered offenses to get to this game. He didn’t have to be leaned on heavily in this particular SB because it was obvious Maye wasn’t experienced enough to handle what Seattle threw at him.

Similar situation - SB 28, Emmitt Smith won MVP in Cowboys 30-13 victory.
Aikman was 19-27 for 207 yards, 0 TDs and 1 INT. He was less than a bus driver in that one game vs Buffalo, but he outdueled some great QBs and offenses to get to that game.

 

[John813]

This was the first yr in over two decades where we saw two defensive lead teams make it to the SB. Yes, defense is very important, but the best overall teams usually win. Rams for example had their Special Teams unit prevent them for beating the Seahawks, as that was a problem all season all and it finally came back to bite them.

Just saying that it's good to break the trend as long as the person leading the team is competent.

There's only so many good offensive minded coaches out there.
In a league that likes to mimic trends, seeing a defensive first team win isn't shocking.

When teams are used to finding a weakness somewhere on a defense, it becomes a lot harder to consistently move the ball when you face a defense with no weakness.
And then Seattle had a good enough offensive cast.

Of course you need good play in all 3 phases to make it far. Seattle has done it twice in ~12-15 years of somehow building a legit defense and a good enough offense to win it all.
We need their scouts lol

 

[Aven8]

Darnold got luck last night. He could have been picked at least 3 times for pick sixes.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You don't need 2 - 1A receivers to win a Superbowl. Neither of their star receivers were big factors in this game.

If Pats had two number ones maybe they don’t struggle as bad as they did,

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Darnold got luck last night. He could have been picked at least 3 times for pick sixes.

He’s getting a lot of credit for willing his team to victory. If I see one more post mentioning him with Lamar and Josh I’m gonna lose it.

 

[conner01]

Drake Maye might not be that good.

He’s young and got his team to the SB. I don’t think they are giving up on him just yet lol

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

You don't need 2 - 1A receivers to win a Superbowl. Neither of their star receivers were big factors in this game.

But compare jersey sales of our 2 1A WRs and theirs? Huh huh...who won now?