That is the question. Don’t worry guys, I’m not going to get all philosophical on you, after all this is a sports blog. But it is a topic that has been coming up quite a bit lately on discussion boards, so allow me to offer my opinion. First off let’s start with Head Coach Ken Whisenhunt, he’s a smart guy and knows how to utilize the players and talent he has on his team. He’s flexible and doesn’t try to force a certain system on the players he has, as opposed to making his personnel adopt to a system that doesn’t fit there skills. When he first arrived I think Whiz wanted to foster a run and run first approach, but after arriving he realized that the run game wasn’t moving the chains like our passing game, so he went with and stuck with, passing first and passing often mentality.

Make no mistake, that’s been our bread and butter, we have arguably the best tandem of starting receivers in the NFL with Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin, not to mention Steve Breaston as our third wideout, who also gained a 1000 yards. That’s a vaunted passing attack if I’ve ever seen one. That was Like Winslow, Jefferson and Joiner all over again, but what did they win? Passing games are exciting, beautiful to watch at times, almost ballet like. I mean it’s exciting to watch a running back take a handoff and go the distance for 70, 80 or 90 yards, but when you see a perfectly thrown 80 yard bomb, that’s a thing of beauty to see. It’s quick and it’s 6 right in your face.  That pass play just shaved a whopping 7 seconds off the game clock. It can be devastating to the defense to get scored on that quick, but for the team that just scored that quick, their defense was huffing and puffing on the sidelines still trying to catch their breath, now it’s back on the field.

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