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From Mike Wise's article in the Post the other day after putting up 25 points on the Eagles.. Some very interesting trends in today's NFL..

"Every week, there is incontrovertible evidence against the running game, against even balance, in the NFL.

The four division leaders that seem on a collision course to meet in the respective conference championship games -- the Patriots, Colts, Cowboys and Packers -- all feature spread-the-field passing offenses that put up points.

Twenty-one teams did not have a back rush for 100 yards last week, including six teams that scored more points than Washington. Eight teams won that did not have a back rush for 90 yards.

Everybody throws now. The Rams, for goodness sake, put up 37 points; Steven Jackson ran for just 76 yards in their win.

The Patriots are the standard; for all this talk of how multidimensional pro football's best team is, New England has had a running back rush for more than 100 yards in just three of their nine wins. The day they annihilated the Cowboys by scoring 48 points, the Patriots had 75 yards rushing and averaged 2.6 yards per carry. "

Not to say that we are the Patriots, but the trend of higher scoring offenses have a heavy lean to the passing game. As some of us have been saying all year, we've got to open the playbook up to be able to compete with the elite teams.. Yesterday we either scored or drove deep into Dallas territory on all but 2 possessions in the 2nd half.. Against Philly we did the same, either driving or scoring on almost every possession. The same can't be said for the handcuffed Campbell all of the previous weeks..

Without this devolving into another playcalling thread, it's obvious the gameplan has changed the past couple of weeks to a more aggressive stance. The defense has let us down, the past 2 weeks, not a lack of offensive production. We're closer to the 24 points per game we need to be a 10 win team.

I really think Campbell's inaccuracy deep down the field is lack of attempts during the early parts of the season.. You've got to get into a rhythm at game speed to get those connections down pat.. He'll get more on point with those down the stretch and lead us into the playoffs, IF he's allowed to keep doing what he's been doing..