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BeaverNation93 said 08/11, 12:59 AM
When I say most overlooked, I mean the best Offense that isn???t really mentioned, and I???m gonna go with the 1998 Minnesota Vikings. The Team went 15-1 that year largely in part of their amazing offense, but amazingly they always seem to be overlooked when talking about the best Offenses ever or of the last 20 years.

As a Unit the Vikings scored 556 points- The most ever in a single season, and averaged 34.7 Points per game.

I???ll show you their starters from that year and their stats.

QB-Randal Cunningham- 259 /425 60.1% 3704 yards 34 TD 10 INT 106.0 Rat in 16 games

QB-Brad Johnson- 65/101 64.4% 747 yards 7 TD 5 INT in 89.0 Rat 5 games

RB- Robert Smith-249 ATT 1,184 yards 4.8 YPC 6 TDs in 14 games

RB-Leroy Horde 115 ATT 479 yards 4.2 YPC 9 TDs in 16 games

WR-Cris Carter-78 Catches 1,011 yards 13.0 avg 12 TDs in 16 games

WR-Randy Moss-69 Catches 1313 yards 19.0 avg 17 TDs-in 16 games

WR-Jake Reed=34 Catches 474 yards 13.9 avg 4 TDS-in 11 games

TE- Andrew Glover 35 Catches 522 yards 14.9 avg 5 TDs in 16 games

BeaverNation93 said 08/11, 01:06 PM
The Colts Offense isn???t really overlooked and isn???t any where near as overlooked as the Vikings was. The Colts offense when overlooked was overlooked because, it was only as good as it was because they had no defense(it was ranked 31st Overall that year) which forced them to throw the ball often in the 4th quarter resulting in engorged stats for Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, and Brandon Stokley.

The Vikings however ranked 6th overall that year, The Vikings Offense could score much better than the Colts, and your statement about yards was because of a porous D. So Overall the Vikings Offense was better and did not have the ball nearly as often as the colts did because their D could actually stall the opposing offense.

I???ll go into schedules in my next argument.

BeaverNation93 said 08/11, 01:53 PM
It did because they were practically always behind, and they had to score.

I would expect 6 TDs in half by Peyton Manning against Detroit of all teams; they had one of the worst passing Defenses in the league that year.

A lot of starters sit out part of the last game if they???ve already clinched the playoffs, in fact the Vikings sat most of their players in their last game.

This is off topic but I want to say it anyway, the Vikings should have won the superbowl because of their amazing offense.

The Colts were a good offense and have some consideration for top 15 all time, but the Vikings set the record for points scored in a season, and are constantly left out of discussions for the top 10 all time.