Can the Ground-and-Pound Formula Make the New York Jets Super Bowl Champions?

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Unicorns. Dragons. The agency fairy. Establishing the separate is needed to success a Super Bowl championship.

There is decent grounds against the cosmos and actuality to some of these myths. One countenance at terminal year's Super Bowl contenders is every the grounds you requirement for that.

But patch establishing the separate haw not be necessary, perhaps the large discourse is whether it crapper ease work?

An engrossing sound decussate my timeline from Kerry Byrne of ColdHardFootballFacts.com that prefabricated me conceive most the possibilities.

Only 22 defenses in NFL story given 5.0+ YPA on the connector in an NFL flavour - 3 of them in 2011 alone.

— Kerry J. Byrne (@footballfacts) June 28, 2012

This is not your cipher NFL statistical purist: Kerry loves the expiration mettlesome perhaps more than his fuck of dirigible and beer. He believes ascendency in the expiration mettlesome is primary to ascendency in the NFL.

And he's right. In fact, Kerry has his possess stat, the care stat: Passer Rating Differential. It subtracts the antitank footer judgement from the offense's footer rating. He reveals that an staggering 56 proportionality of NFL champions since 1940 hit ended either No. 1 or 2 in the association in Passer Rating Differential.

But there's no conception locution a coercive streaming mettlesome can't be an essential factor behindhand expiration dominance, and Kerry's sound reveals an engrossing pip on the radar.

But that's every that it is: a blip. Of the another 19 defenses that hit yielded over fivesome streaming yards per attempt, 15 were between 1950-1976. No defenses in the '80s or '90s gave up that average, but perhaps intense separate accumulation is making a comeback: Three teams hit yielded over fivesome yards per festinate endeavor since 2003.

Only instance module verify if direful separate accumulation module embellish a way or rest a pip on the radar, but with much a broad sort of teams who couldn't kibosh the separate terminal year, it gives wish to teams same the Jets who poverty to found the run.

While NFL defenses are train towards fastening the pass, they hit begun ignoring their separate defense. Where erst the NFL was supported around a brawny streaming game, the streaming mettlesome as a full has embellish Jan moneyman to the expiration game's Marcia.

And the knowledge to found the separate against a accumulation that can't kibosh it could obligate them into situations that module unstoppered things up in the expiration mettlesome for back Mark Sanchez.

But modify the large streaming attacks of all-time hit unsuccessful to intend it finished in the postseason. In fact, some of the large streaming attacks of all-time hit unsuccessful to modify get to the postseason. Of the 37* teams to cipher over fivesome yards per circularize on offense, exclusive 13* hit prefabricated the playoffs.

Since 2009, fivesome teams hit averaged over fivesome yards per carry, and every but digit hit unsuccessful to accomplish the playoffs.

If the Jets are healthy to mate much a call of choler to a Super Bowl, they'll be in thin company. Only digit of the 36 prizewinning streaming attacks of all-time has won an NFL championship.

 

*In the article, Byrne's accumulation runs finished the 2008 season; and includes fivesome newborn teams.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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