I'm left wondering what game you're thinking of here.
NFL football is a team sport. Individual efforts are fine in one off situations...or in what you see week-in-week-out come NFL season time...creating mis-matches, exploiting and attacking weaknesses.
But a whole bunch of other stuff has gotta happen right before you can throw a deep go git it dawg ball to OBD...and even when you do everything right, the D can still get lucky.
The beauty of today's NFL is that the disparity between the teams is so small, several games it comes down to what happened over a couple of possessions. Guys like ODB are great because not only do they make plays and score amazing TD's, they force the opposing D to play straight and require lesser teams to run extra man coverages (and even that don't work sometimes).