[discostu]

How about that Rams/ Titans game. Rams had a good defense to backup their offense (unlike the Rams since then who's defense has blown), and it's a good thing too because without that defense the Titans tie the game instead of getting stopped one yard short.

McNabb this season: 16 TDs, 11 INTs. And this is being hailed as his breakout year that banished all the demons.

Or maybe because Sherman is a symptom of the problem. Every coach at some point this year called passes when they should have called runs. Look at the Pats great defensive stand in the regular season against the Colts, Pats went pass whacky with lots of incompletions that stopped the clock; if they'd run it 3 times on that last possession and killed the clock the Colts never get near the endzone and the miracle stand never happens. It's a pass whacky league.

[Libertarian4Bush]

Rams had a good defense to backup their offense

That same defense lost ONE player and stunk the following year. It's easy to look good as a defense when you're playing from 11 points ahead all game.

I think a lot of coaches are buying too much into this "west coast offense"... i.e. the aforementioned 2nd-and-1 call... however, play selection, run/pass ratio haven't changed much over the past 10 years, and a large part of the modern passing game is shovels, screens, flat patterns to backs, nothing more than runs with a bit more risk/reward.