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The difference in time on the field is neglible to the point of irrelevance.A few opinion-based thoughts, nothing scientific...
Keeping the other team's offense on the field gives them more opportunities for them to fumble, throw INTs, etc. Classic Patriots defenses were quite good at getting turnovers and even a bunch of YAC to put the offense in favorable positions. BDB means putting the opponent's offense into shorter/tighter fields with more opportunities for them to make mistakes. BDB means not letting in cheap/easy scores, making the other team earn their points, keeping the pressure on them.
Love the GOAT, but I think it's fair to say most of his years here he did not have a "greatest show on turf (tm)" weapons based offense that rang up points like crazy. We sadly know how the Moss era ended up, enjoyable but in the end not satisfying. Teams that did go with the GSOT approach like the aforementioned Rams, or the Manning-era Colts, did not have as much success overall as we did. I guess we'll see if that style does become the way to get prolonged success, but people here often mention that Rogers, Mahomes, et al have only gotten one SB instead of multiple, so the evidence isn't clear to me at least. Would need to see like three SB appearances in four years with two wins to consider the team to have prolonged success. Don't think the current Rams have that in them, IMO.
The GOAT has had a weapons-oriented offense the last two seasons. First season the team had good health and won the SB. Second year, not as healthy, and in the big game against the Rams Stafford outplayed the GOAT statistically and TB's defense broke instead of bent in the clutch. Rams moved down the field when it mattered. Not sure if they've addressed that very well or not.
I would like to see the Moneyball style analysis you describe, but would think people like Ernie Adams were being paid to look at such things from a high level and decide if we were on the right track or not. I think they've aimed for an overall higher level of talent across the team, and tried to avoid a "stars and scrubs" approach that some other teams have ended up with.