Bills Mathia: Does the modern NFL favor offense?

As promised, there’s discussion about the Buffalo Bills in this episode. A qualifying phrase that’s constantly used by analytics nerds such as myself is “The Modern NFL.” Why? Because the game has changed over time and it’s helpful to discuss the notion that the current analytics/math/stats based conversation is rooted in the more current era. It allows us to better compare apples-to-apples.

With that in mind, something you hear very often about “The Modern NFL” is that it’s an offense-driven league. This sentiment is quite frequently accompanied by the notion that the current state of the league is a not offense-driven, but lopsided toward that side of the game. Is that true? Bills Mathia…