Let's move out of the stone age, Cougarboard!
Slowly but surely, we're moving past total yardage as the end-all, be-all of football. It's an ongoing battle. We will still for years to come see "they're 104th in pass defense" (as in, 104th in passing yards allowed per game) as a terribly inaccurate way of saying a team's pass defense isn't very good (when it's really just saying the team sees a lot of pass attempts)...Big plays are probably the single most important factor to winning football games.