Earlier today I posted about the supposedly newfound dominance of passing over running in today’s NFL. Looking at the graphs, we saw that pass-first offenses have been in the majority for almost 30 years.
But if pass-happy attacks have been around for a long time, why has every NFL commentator suddenly picked up the torch to declare this a new phenomenon? The simplest and cruelest answer is that these “experts” don’t actually know anything. But maybe there’s some other factor at work…