Tapp-ing into the Numbers 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 17)
By JERRY TAPP
Seven times since the 1966 season the Packers had 30 or more TD passes in a season and less than 10 rushing TDs in that same campaign. Those seven seasons are by far the most of any team since ’66; in fact, only one team, San Diego, even has three such seasons since 1966.
Last season the Packers had 40 TD passes and 11 rushing TDs. No NFL team last season had 30 or more TD passes and less than 10 rushing TDs, the first time since 2009.
Here are the teams that have the most seasons with 30 or more TD passes and less than 10 rushing TDs in the same season.
7-Green Bay
3-San Diego
2-Atlanta, Detroit, Oakland, Washington
1-Arizona, Buffalo, Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Miami, Minnesota, New Orleans, New England, New York Giants, Pittsburgh, Seattle.
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.