Yeah, often times more yards passing and more attempts equals a loss. See the Elvis Grbac Special from November 5, 2000. He was 39 of 53 for 504 yards. Score at end of 1st quarter: Raiders 14, Chiefs 0 Halftime score: Raiders 28, Chiefs 10 Final score: Raiders 49, Chiefs 31 The game was never close. Last month, I was trying to find games where a team scored more points than the number of yards it passed for in the game. I knew one of them was probably the Raiders-Bengals game of 1991. The Raiders won 38-14 and only completed 4 passes. I knew that off the top of my head. I then did the research on the passing stats. They gained only 19 yards passing (remember, yards sacked is used when calculating pass yardage). The Bills did it against the Jets in 1974, but that was in a game with 45-mph wind. The Jets didn't complete a pass till under the 2-minute warning. The Jets were 2 of 18. The Bills were 0 of 2. That remains the most recent game where a team did not complete a pass. The Bills won 16-12. There are other examples of this phenomenon. I emailed a list to jetophile last month. Of course, it wasn't complete. I didn't look at all 13,000+ games. What a fraud Grbac was. I cannot stress that enough. I was incensed when Baltimore gave him all that money to be the starter following their Super Bowl season and Grbac's amazingly hollow 2000 stats. That was the most upset I ever got over an NFL signing and it had nothing to do with the Jets!
Ouch!! It still hurts to read about that game!! Man i was a big Vinny fan, but i swear he always made me nervous as hell. Either a fumble(s) or a pic(s), this game typified that. And yes we still need to stick with the run as painful as it may be right now.
"New York has lost three consecutive for the second time this year. It went from 4-0, 6-1 and 9-4 to out of the playoffs..." gave me a sick to my stomache feeling... Lets just thank that the board wasn't around for that season...
