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Even in an age where defenses are doing all they can to fight back, offense is still king in the modern NFL. There is nothing more determinative of a team’s success in this league than the quality of its quarterback and the pieces with which the organization surrounds him. If you have the right mixture, you can overcome almost anything else.
Who is your QB? Who is protecting him? Who is catching his passes? Who is next to (or behind) him in the backfield? Who is scheming those players open and putting them in position to succeed? Are there injury and/or depth issues at any or all of those positions?
All the pieces matter. The degree to which they matter varies greatly, of course, but each plays a role in allowing an offense to hum at peak efficiency. With all that in mind, we welcome you to our fifth annual offensive infrastructure rankings.
A few important notes before we begin:
We once again used a weighted grading system where each team was given a 1-5 rating (1 = terrible, 3 = average, 5 = elite) in the following areas: Quarterback, Play-Caller (head coach and/or offensive coordinator), Offensive Line, Pass-Catchers (WR/TE), and Running Backs. Those scores were then weighted so that the quarterback was the most important component of the offense, followed by play-caller, offensive line, and pass-catchers, and then finally running backs, so that the weights reflected as closely as possible the reality of the way modern NFL offenses work.In the event that teams ended up with the same weighted score, the first tiebreaker was the quarterback score. The second tiebreaker was the non-quarterback score. The third tiebreaker was the combined play-caller, offensive line, and pass-catcher score.These are not necessarily rankings of how we expect these offenses to perform during the 2024 season. They’re an attempt to capture which offenses are best positioned for success based on the quality of…
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Author : Jared Dubin
Publish date : 2024-05-22 13:42:30
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