Love it or hate it: Fisherball works

The bad thing is, I find our passing offense lacking every team ahead of us on the list except the Vikings.


"Fisher"ball better work because I want a Superbowl win. Otherwise call it "Marty"ball after Schottenheimer.

 

That type of game has always worked. If you keep the opponent from scoring you usually win. If you can also run the ball well you will succeed on a consistent basis and win 2/3 of your games.

Last year we ran the ball pretty good, not great, threw the ball poorly and had horrible red zone effectiveness. We still won 10 games because of our defense. Of course our kicking game was exceptional.

I can't think of a team that won consistently over a significant period of time that didn't both run the ball well and play great defense.

 

What about the ravens? I would rate us equal to the bucs in passing offense.


Jeff left off the dolphins who were both 9th in scoring defense and 9th in rushing yards. Scoring defense is more important than total.

 

you're just saying that because the Titans are tops in scoring defense.

 

Actually, we aren't.

I haven't looked on ESPN or NFL.com, but the Tennessean said that the Steelers' shutout combined with our 23 point give up this week cost us the points title.

 

If you believe in trends....

Over the past 15 years or so, virtually every Super Bowl was won by the team with the better scoring defense.

Unfortunately, we've seen that trend bucked in the past couple years, with the Colts beating the Bears and the Giants beating the Pats. Hopefully the pattern resumes this year.

 

Love it.

And this year, it is fun to watch, because CJ can take it to the house, and Kerry could throw a long TD. So it's not boring anymore. This team is better than the one who went to the superbowl. We can score from anywhere at any time.

 

Out of the previous recent Superbowl champions, which one's fall in the category of Fisherball?

2007 Giants
2006 Colts
2005 Steelers
2004 Pats
2003 Pats
2002 Bucs
2001 Pats
2000 Ravens
1999 Rams

I think the Ravens and Bucs easily fall in that category. The Steelers really as well. The Giants I can see an argument for and an argument against.

 

I think most all of them do...with that said, those teams' offenses were a lot like Fisherball, except they all had very good passing games to balance out their run games even more.
So even though Fisherball means, strong run game, strong defense; if that Fisherball offense also happened to have a high powered passing game, would it still be considered Fisherball?