I saw a remarkable video today by the much-lauded Football Analysis YouTube guys, focusing on the correlation between the NFL’s WR market and the RB market.
To start things off here, I will be going back to the basics: Offense in football is conducted in two flavors: Passing and rushing.
The early NFL was originally built on the premise that rushing the ball was better. The game had not yet figured out that passing, while riskier, was much better off in terms of yardage efficiency.
Coach Don Coryelle and his “Air Coryell” offense then revolutionized the passing approach to football in the late ’50s.