A Little Perspective: The Passing Game

The infamous” Johnny Dallas” is back with another batch of stats from his personal archive to shed a little light on the Jets offensive ineptitude. For those of you who are unfamiliar or don’t remember John is my maniac friend who fancies himself as a ” by the numbers” football guy ala K.C. Joyner and keeps stats for his own personal reference and has been kind enough to share a little sampling with the rest of the world. I had him pull the Jets offensive numbers and a team with a comparable offensive philosophy as a measuring stick and we settled on the Ravens. Both the Jets and the Ravens are teams with great running games and young, perhaps somewhat under-achieving quarterbacks that have decided to abruptly go away from their run-first philosophy to having the 8th and 9th most passing attempt in the league, respectively. However, the two teams find them on almost complete opposite sides of the spectrum, the Ravens are poised to get a first round bye...