Fifteen plus years ago, Standard Operating Procedure, unless a quarterback is a prove future Hall of Famer, game plan for a QB to throw 25 passes per game or less. Fifteen plus years ago, S.O.P., game plan proven future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, throw less than 35 passes per game.
Ordinary guys at QB position are throwing over 30 passes per game today. It is not analytics. Teams who rush the ball for over 4 yards per carry are throwing too often on 2nd & 1, 2nd and 2, 3rd and 1 and 3rd & 2.
Team president and team g.m.s have decided running backs are suffering injuries at too high a rate. Even when running backs are not injured, the game wears running backs out. Fifty or sixty years ago, did top paid quarterback in NFL earn more than 3 times as much as top running back? Joe Burrow, I believe is the top paid QB at $3.2 million/game; Christian McCaffery is the top paid running back at $1 million/game. Maybe Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath and Fran Tarkenton were paid more than three times top paid running backs?
Is it marketing? Remember old AFL, it was deep passes with George Blanda, Joe Namath, Daryle Lamonica, etc.
Without a glamorous throwing QB in his hear demanding to throw the ball 30 plus passes per game, Troy Aikman, Oklahoma won national championship running the ball 50 plus plays a game.
Deno, your team never should have played in Superbowl. Detroit was running the ball, about 6 yards a carry then for reasons I do not know except to help passing game stats, Detroit stopped running the ball and let 49ers back in the ball game. Your QB, B Purdy had no business throwing the football 38 times.