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Originally Posted by MagicHef
In 1984, teams averaged 1.37 TD passes per game.
Last year, teams averaged 1.47 TD passes per game.
What a huge change there's been.
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The average passing yards per team has risen from 3,294 to 3,770 from 1984 through 2013. That averages 30 yards more per game, which I think is significant. (The average went from 206 to 236.)
Honestly, I would have assumed that the averages were much higher than that on yardage, and also that the increase would have been larger. Must be a Matt Cassel effect in 2013.
I'm also showing 1.57 TD passes per game in 2013. If it was 1.37 in 1984 and 1.47 in 2012, then we saw a 30-year jump in average over the course of a single season in 2013. I'm not bothering to calculate all the years in between, so maybe one of the three numbers is a fluke.