The Unexpected Power Shift: How the Ground Game is Quietly Dominating This NFL Playoff Season
Meanwhile, the Broncos had the 10th-best run-blocking offensive line and a good running quarterback but no elite running back.
The nuance of this leads to some ambiguity, but the most telling element is that all of the playoff teams had at least one of the three elements to establish a good running game. That paints of a picture of how to be a successful NFL team.
The next phase – and the one the winning teams in the wild-card round deployed – is continuing to exercise what worked in the regular season. The winning teams maintained their dominance of the ground to help build big leads, which in turn perpetuated the ground attack that started it all.
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