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[QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 1266572, member: 1333"]
While I appreciate your effort to forecast and be out in front of something before it actually happens and fall into that myself from time to time, a handful of games don't make for a pendulum like iconic shift.  More than that, its humorous to me that you see a pendulum shift toward old school bruising back and defense dominated football when we just saw Oregon (leader in the spread offense movement) in the FBS NC game and FSU in the semis and when the NFL just featured the Packers, Patriots and Colts, all of whom are pass dominated teams.  I think what we are seeing is that the coaching cream rises to the top and the top of the coaching heap actually looks at what opponents can and cannot do well on defense and adjust the offense accordingly.  So Urban Meyer has OSU run the ball through Zeke Elliott down the throats of Oregon's smaller defensive players and they can't stop it.  Belichick has New England change the focal point of its offense weekly to take advantage of the other team's weaknesses, so in one week a RB pounds the ball for 200 yards and in the next, there simply is no back and Brady throws it 45 times.  Seattle beat the Packers not by running the ball down their throats with Lynch, but by spreading them out and running the option very well in the last 4 minutes.
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