Section 11 "They had top 10 everything in the 80's and 90's, but the teams that actually won did it on the shoulders of combos like Elway/Davis, Faulk/Warner, Farve/Levens, Aikman/Smith, Young/Watters, Montana/Craig, Riggins/Theisman"
I just looked at the last 10 SB's instead of all the way back here is my thoughts:
Tampa Bay- Defense accounts for 5 sacks, 5 Int a fumble recovery and 21 points. Offense Johnson throws 215 yards and 14 points, rushing 124 yards from main rusher and no score. I give this win primarily to the defense.
New England - Defense accounts for 3 sacks, 2 Int, a fumble recovery and 7 points. Offense Brady throws 145 yards and a score, rushing 92 yards from main rusher no score. I give this win primarily to the defense
Baltimore - Defense accounts for 4 sacks, 4 Int, a fumble recovery and 7 points. Offense Dilfer throws 153 yards and a score, rushing 102 yards and a score from main rusher. I give this win primarily to the defense
St. Louis - Defense accounts for 1 sack, no Int, no fumble recovery and no points. Offense Warner throws 414 yards and 2 scores, rushing only 17 yards and no scores. This was the Warner show, Offense.
Denver - Defense accounts for 3 sacks, 2 Int, no fumble recovery no score. Offense Elway throws 336 yards and a score, rushing 102 yards from main rusher and a score. I actually think Denver had one of the most balanced teams and think this should be neither offense or defense but a great team effort.
Denver - Defense accounts for 1 sack, 1 Int, 1 fumble recovery no score. Offense Elway throws 123 yards no score, rushing 157 yards and 3 scores. This was the Terrell Davis show, give it to the offense
Green Bay - Defense accounts for 5 sacks, 4 Int, no fumbles and 1 score. Offense Favre throws 246 yards and 2 scores, rushing 61 yards from main rusher. Overall Favre had a good game, rushing wasnt really that good, I give slight edge to defense here.
Dallas - Defense accounts for 4 sacks, 3 Int, no fumbles no scores. Aikman throws 209 yards and a score, rushing 49 yards and 2 scores. This is another one to me that was more a team win than anything.
San Francisco - Defense accounts for 2 sacks, 3 Int, no fumble recovery no score. Young throws 325 yards and 6 scores, and is also the main rusher at 49 yards and no scores. This was the Steve Young show, give it Offense.
Dallas - Defense accounts for 3 sacks, 1 Int, 2 fumble recover and 1 score. Aikman throws 207 yards no scores, rushing 132 yards and 2 scores from main rusher. This is either slightly defense or at worse split, I'll give it split.
So what does this give us? 2 things:
#1 Defense accounts for Defense had 4 wins, offense had 3 wins and total team effort accounted for 3 wins. IN the last 5 years however (which is the idea of "trend" you take the most recent trend not an "overall" picture, the trend is 3 defense, 1 offense and 1 team, saying trend is defense overall and on the recent trend.
#2 your statement that the offense on the shoulders of a QB/RB tandem doesnt hold water at all. Look at the 3 offensive wins, you had #'s that were so lopsided twords either a fabulous QB stats (Warner with 414 yards and 2 Td's vs Faulk with 17 yards and no TD's) (Steve Young with 325 yards and 6 Td's vs Watters with less rushing yards then Young allthough he did do a good job recieving wise w/2 of Youngs TD passes) and (Terrell Davis with 153 yards rushing and 3 Td's vs Elway with 123 yards and no scores). This means that offense wins not on the backs of a good QB/RB tandem, but when either a QB or a RB truly steps up their game and takes the whole team on thier shoulders to win the game.