The era of passing offense is over.

[HaroldSeattle]

Expect many teams to follow the blueprint that the Seahawks have laid down. It's a blast to the pass, teams are going to try to build great Defenses and a grind it out Offense that doesn't turn the ball over.
Heck it's been going on even before this year, if your a GM of a NFL team, how do you give yourself a chance to build a Superbowl team? Pray you can find the next Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or accept that that isn't likely and simply build a strong roster.

I know the NFL has pushed passing offense with rule changes and such, but without that special QB it just doesn't work, heck it doesn't work even with that special QB.

Old school football is back. I for one love it!

 

[pumpkinhead33793]

Expect many teams to follow the blueprint that the Seahawks have laid down. It's a blast to the pass, teams are going to try to build great Defenses and a grind it out Offense that doesn't turn the ball over.
Heck it's been going on even before this year, if your a GM of a NFL team, how do you give yourself a chance to build a Superbowl team? Pray you can find the next Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or accept that that isn't likely and simply build a strong roster.

I know the NFL has pushed passing offense with rule changes and such, but without that special QB it just doesn't work, heck it doesn't work even with that special QB.

Old school football is back. I for one love it!

I agree for the most part. You still do need an offense that doesn't turn the ball over as well. That is why the Bears and their great D in 2006 lost to Peyon's Colts.

 

[MISKO]

I hope your right Harold..... Grats on the win

 

[Tech_God]

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Old school football is back. I for one love it!

A-men, brother!

 

[Steelboy84]

No it's not. You could have made the same case after SB XL too and look what happened.

 

[Doublejive]

Not with the rules but many teams since last year have been scouting for tall DB's etc ever since seeing LOB.

 

[SonnyCID]

No it's not. You could have made the same case after SB XL too and look what happened.

Lol

Some steeler fans just cant help themselves from bringing up xl.

 

[JDM]

I don't think it's as easy to put together a dominant pass defense like you have as you're implying. You have a lot of guys on rookie contracts.

 

[Steelboy84]

Lol

Some steeler fans just cant help themselves from bringing up xl.

Well, Pittsbugh was a grind out run based team with a great defense. Did that slow down the pass happiness in the NFL?

 

[AngryNiner]

Expect many teams to follow the blueprint that the Seahawks have laid down. It's a blast to the pass, teams are going to try to build great Defenses and a grind it out Offense that doesn't turn the ball over.
Heck it's been going on even before this year, if your a GM of a NFL team, how do you give yourself a chance to build a Superbowl team? Pray you can find the next Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or accept that that isn't likely and simply build a strong roster.

I know the NFL has pushed passing offense with rule changes and such, but without that special QB it just doesn't work, heck it doesn't work even with that special QB.

Old school football is back. I for one love it!

I hope you are right! I am well passed tired of hearing talking heads say dumb shit like; you need an "elite" qb to win in this league. I miss hard nosed football.

 

[Cobiemonster]

This is still going to be a passing league imo - and it's easy to say every team is going to emulate the Seahawks defense but it's going to be difficult for every team to do that - you need to have a good offense to win as well

Teams just need to be smarter with how they build their roster, they don't have to go all defense - they can have a good mix to win

There are always going to be a bunch of different teams in this league - teams who are great at passing and then teams who have a good mix of both and teams who are really good at just defense

 

[germanjohn]

Expect many teams to follow the blueprint that the Seahawks have laid down. It's a blast to the pass, teams are going to try to build great Defenses and a grind it out Offense that doesn't turn the ball over.
Heck it's been going on even before this year, if your a GM of a NFL team, how do you give yourself a chance to build a Superbowl team? Pray you can find the next Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, or accept that that isn't likely and simply build a strong roster.

I know the NFL has pushed passing offense with rule changes and such, but without that special QB it just doesn't work, heck it doesn't work even with that special QB.

Old school football is back. I for one love it!

Textbook slippery-slope logical fallacy.

One game in which a great quarterback played like shit and a good defense played perfectly DOES NOT === the end of the NFL being a passing league. Over the past 10 years, more and more rules have been passed that make the QB and WR's all but untouchable. Manning had a difficult time tonight because Seattle was 2 steps ahead of every read he was making, and when he did, they flew to the ball and minimized the YAC. Likewise, DEN's D has been suspect all year against the run IMO. They didn't revolutionize anything. They just had a great power back and good blocking up front. To take that and say "the era of passing offense is over" is mentally fucking retarded.

 

[SonnyCID]

As the old guard of QBs retiré, teams will focus on putting a running game and defense around young QBs instead of just trying to put more and more receiving options around them.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

Baltimore chucked the ball all over the highly rated 49ers defense


Eli and Brady had their aerial game moments


Aaron Rodgers and Big Ben passed just fine


Drew Brees went 32 for 39


............


I think one superbowl suddenly doesn't change the reality that offense has dominated lately.

 

[mrwallace2ku]

Let's go back to the "wishbone" and "I formation" league...jezuz

 

[gohusk]

I don't know about that. Props to PC and Schneider for gobbling up Shearman and Chancellor but if they realized either to these guys were as good as they ended up being they wouldn't have risked them dropping to the 2nd round. That's two 5th rounders who ended up being the best in the business at their position.

 

[Destroydacre]

Well, Pittsbugh was a grind out run based team with a great defense. Did that slow down the pass happiness in the NFL?

Seattle wasn't a pass happy 5000yd, 40+ passing TD team in 2005. They were a fairly balanced offense that actually favored the run with SA running behind a fantastic blocking O line. That game didn't leave nearly the impression that this game did. It's impossible to say now how big of an impact this game will have on the NFL going forward, but the trend of putting together a team like Seattle has with a smash mouth D and ball control offense has already started in the NFC even before this game.

 

[Wedgie]

I don't know about that. Props to PC and Schneider for gobbling up Shearman and Chancellor but if they realized either to these guys were as good as they ended up being they wouldn't have risked them dropping to the 2nd round. That's two 5th rounders who ended up being the best in the business at their position.

I think the MVP was a seventh round pick, no? (My stat man for this is my brother...)

 

[WizardHawk]

Seattle isn't the only team in the league that has built itself around the defense first philosophy. SF is nearly a carbon copy of us in that respect (only with a choking QB and not the CB's we have). There are easily 2-3 others in the NFC that are also at least attempted to be built like ours.

The problem with talking about this 'era' stuff is I'm not sure there are enough guys out there that can all come together the way Seattle has to build a dozen more of them. The rules still favor the offense and that makes it harder than it was back in the day to make a physical and disciplined defense.

Are other teams going to look at our schemes and talent and try to take from it what they can? Well of course they are. They at least need to study it if they want to try and beat it next year. But finding the recipe and cooking a world class meal out of it are two entirely different things.

 

[Clayton]

We just had the most pass happy season in NFL history. Passing is here to stay. If there is a trend, its toward defensive players that can allow defensive formations that can stop the pass.

Seattle plays a Cover 3 most of the time. There are holes in the Cover 3 but only if you can beat the safety deep up the middle (I think Peyton tried twice with an overthrow and a play where the TE ran into the S). You can also throw shallow into the flat and shallow in the middle but that'll only net you about 3-5 yards a pass which is why Peyton had so many completions.

If you're trying to say that teams are still going to try and build elite defenses then the answer is yes. Each elite defense is a bit different, though. The thing that sticks out about the best ones is that they don't use gimmicks. Its not Bill Bellichick voodoo to make average defenses look elite like he has been doing the past few years. Its talent