but you are IGNORING situational football and RISK-REWARD.
Situationally: If TB is beating up on a bunch of cellar-dwellars during 25-40% of the regular season (4-6 games); then I would rather see a 40-60 ratio in those games and run the ball down their darned throat; burn the clock and get out unscathed (if OL, RBs, TEs are laying the licks to block ... they arent getting hit so hard themselves).
Risk-reward: In every reward you usually have an associated HIGHER RISK. If he is our most valuable weapon; then please remember that every time he goes back to pass - he stands there with a BULLSEYE on his chest, arm and head (or knee if you are B. Pollard). If you get him hurt in wk 8 passing 55% of the time; maybe he isnt there in the PO?
Sure you want to MAXIMIZE your most dangerous weapon; but you also want to get the ball out of his hands as quickly as possible (or as Madden says 'get the ball into the hands of the playmaker') .... and let those YOUNG STUDS absorb the accompanying HARD HITS. TB isnt getting any younger, he is rapidly approaching nfl-senior citizen status (or at least AARP-discount status
).