O line or skill players?

Profootballreference.com looks at teams that skewed heavily toward either Oline or skill players.  Two Colts squads figure prominently.  The 96 Colts had Faulk and Harrison.

I don’t see any difference between those groups to suggest that you would actually want all your best players bunched at the lines versus either spread out or in the skill positions. I tried to look at this other ways, such as looking at the raw difference in career AV, rather than percentages. That just produced a list that looked very similar on the offensive line heavy side, but an offensive skill heavy list that basically consisted of the San Fransisco 49ers with Montana/Young plus Rice, Craig/Watters, and others, and the recent versions of the Peyton Manning Colts. I don’t think the 49ers were hurt by their best players being skill positions.

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