Quote:  I agree with you that talent wasn't the issue with those Oilers teams.    You did a good job of illustrating their talent with some of the players you mentioned from those Oilers teams.  The Oilers  didn't seem to have the necessary amount of discipline and focus that's needed to get over the top.   This certainly wasn't a reflection of Warren Moon though. 

Agreed.  It was almost like a carry over from the Glanville era.

 

I still think 1992 might have been their year to reach the Super Bowl had they gotten a break in the second half of that Bills game.

 

Some blame the run-n-shoot offense for being unable to run out the clock.

 

I don't know if I buy that for three reasons.

 

1 I think that offense was key to their success.  Their 2nd, 3rd and 4th WRs were invariably better than the DBs covering them, and it kept the ball in Moon's hands.  In that game, they had a couple of turnovers.  Oddly enough, absent TEs and FBs, that Oilers team definitely had the talent to be a power running team if they chose to be.

 

2.  Even without the TEs and FBs, they still had a 1200 yard rusher in Lorenzo White. It wasn't an inability to run out the clock that did them in.  Turnovers and an inability to stop the overwhelming momentum lost that game for the Oilers.

 

3.  In the second half of that game, Buffalo managed to exploit one guy on the defense the entire second half-nickel back Steve Jackson (?).  It was one of the most embarrassing displays of defensive football by one DB I've ever seen in an NFL game, ranking up there with Charles Dimry and several others.

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