You must outscore teams in todays NFL

[Reid1boys]

Lets look at the top 6 teams in the NFL in no order: Bills, Chiefs, Bengals, Niners, Eagles and Cowboys. Everyone of those teams, except the Niners can put up 40 points in any given game and nobody would be surprised. BUT, the Niners have clearly the best defense in football. It is just like I say in regards to you need a top qb to win a SB(Not every time... so dont be foolish) but the teams that typically have won a SB that dont have a HOF type qb, have had a 49er type defense.

It is no secret that the top 3 AFC teams have the top 3 QBs. I think 2 of the top NFC teams also have 2 of the top QBs in the NFC.

I thought we finally had a dominant defense, but these last several games have shown otherwise.... at least we can keep up with all of them AND have a defense that can turn it over. This will be interesting to see how things shape up moving forward.... but you better score.

 

[blueblood70]

nah we should reinsert Rush and run 45times game to help the defense, right..its daks fault the defense is giving up 30+ now .... :>x

 

[links18]

Yes, that is the NFL now. We couldn't really stop Philly, but they had a hard time stopping us also. So we won by single digits.

 

[KJJ]

You’re not going to get far in the playoffs having to score 35+ points to win games. Our defense was very stingy the first half of the season holding several teams under 20 points and only giving up one TD per week. Our bend but don’t break defense has broke. When your defense is giving up more than 27 points per week you’ve got some issues.

 

[RoboQB]

You've always had to outscore other teams to win... in every sport... smh

 

[Tommy]

You've always had to outscore other teams to win... in every sport... smh

Not golf

 

[Hardline]

You must outscore your opponent to win in football?

 

[RoboQB]

Not golf

Not the way I play Golf... lol

 

[JoiseyCowboyfan]

I think what the OP is saying is that it is an offensive game now (has been for years) and to win it is a prerequisite to score a lot of points, but you have to have a good defense so they don't score more points.

 

[TheCoolFan]

Defense wins in the playoffs...especially when the path is on the road, like what the Cowboys will have to do.

 

[unionjack8]

nah we should reinsert Rush and run 45times game to help the defense, right..its daks fault the defense is giving up 30+ now .... :>x

Funnily enough they won the game, they gave dak 4 turnovers to use....

kearse int at PHI 47
Kearse FR PHI 31
Bland int DAL 46
Barr FR PHI 25
That's 3, hell no its 4 short Fields , 2 extremely short ones

 

[SDCowboy]

You’ve always had to outscore teams. I don’t think there was ever an era where the team with fewer points won. lol

 

[Plankton]

It's analysis like this that makes me come back to the Zone.

 

[JBS]

Correct. The team with the higher score has always win. Since the inception of the sport. Great insight.

 

[Reid1boys]

You’ve always had to outscore teams. I don’t think there was ever an era where the team with fewer points won. lol

except there was an era when your qb could throw 12 times and win a SB.... read between the lines genius.

 

[Reid1boys]

Correct. The team with the higher score has always win. Since the inception of the sport. Great insight.

some of you are pretty damn stupid.

Bob Griese was 8-11 with 88 yards and won a SB by a score of 14-7
Bob Griese was 6-7 for 73 yards and won a SB by a score of 24-7
Terry Bradshaw was 9-14 with 96 yards and won 16-6
Terry Bradshaw was 9-19 for 209 yards and won 21-17

No way in hell is any QB going to win a SB going forward completing less than 10 passes.

 

[SDCowboy]

except there was an era when your qb could throw 12 times and win a SB.... read between the lines genius.

Or, you know, create a better title.

 

[kskboys]

nah we should reinsert Rush and run 45times game to help the defense, right..its daks fault the defense is giving up 30+ now .... :>x

The type of O you run definitely affects the D.

 

[blueblood70]

Funnily enough they won the game, they gave dak 4 turnovers to use....

kearse int at PHI 47
Kearse FR PHI 31
Bland int DAL 46
Barr FR PHI 25
That's 3, hell no its 4 short Fields , 2 extremely short ones

NO its team game and team win but stating facts

they still allowed some pretty easy chunk yards and scores. they didnt give dak 4 pick sixes did they?? dak and the offense still needed to score. not sure where you are going with this defense did get the TOS they needed too,

if not it their fault we needed to score so much so in between all those yards and points, they got Those plays and that great but think deeper, they whether were getting torched or getting T/O, no sacks etc they were being picked apart by the Stash, not hurts,

you get that right if they didn't get it turned over , they were the ones allowing the big scores. Get it yet ??if they dont get those TOS we lose 50-30 because they weren't bot getting stops in between those

Our offense had no issues moving the ball and scoring so they could have won a normal game but it became necessary to win high scoring game because of a boom or bust inconsistent defense. they helped themselves LOL that's great but it doesn't dismiss them from the bad drives in between,

they blew a 14 point lead in GB, a 17 point lead in Jags, also gave up 246 yards to bears run game, GB game same thing. Just saying they need to tighten this up..

 

[kskboys]

Swiiiiiiiiinnggg and a miss. By several of you guys.

It takes balance, in general. Must have O and D to win a super bowl. If you can't stop the other team, you're not winning the super bowl.

And with all the scoring, it still comes down to D. The last super bowl winner, Rams, scored 23. The Bengals got there by playing nasty shut down D in the 4th vs the Chiefs. And the Bengals scored less than 30 in all of their playoff games. Beat TENN by scoring 19.

Rams scored less than 30 in their last two playoff games.

Yes, you must be able to score, but if you can't make D stops your scoring becomes irrelevant.