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Yeah, but that doesn't mean that TOP is irrelevant either. Hanging onto the ball for long drives can and does make things harder on the opposing team, on both sides of the ball. We've seen that too many times in NFL history to ignore that.
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It can be an indicator of efficiency. That’s it. At best. It’s not even that highly correlated.
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But TOP can be a factor in how a team plays the game, which is a different thing. You can literally scare a team into changing their gameplan by holding onto the ball for 10 minutes at a time. It's kind of like yards/carry average. Don't want to get real involved in this, but let's just use a quick hypothetical example. Let's say you have a RB that runs 10 times in the first half, and the first 9 carries he averages 2 yards/carry, so he's got 18 yards or so. Then for his last carry of the half he breaks out and somehow runs for 82 yards. So at the half this guy has 100 yards rushing, which most people would say he averaged 10 yards/carry. No DC would look at it like that. A guy that just ran for 10 yards/carry on your defense is scary as hell, and any DC would be twisting his brain into a pretzel trying to figure out how to stop that guy. He'd change his scheme, move guys around, sub in guys he normally might not even play, but do whatever it took to slow that guy down. But any real DC would look at those stats and say to himself, "well we held him to half the NFL average for 9 carries and then he got a little lucky and broke off a big run. Tighten up whatever allowed him to get loose like that and we got this guy." It's kind of the same with TOP. If you have a team that grinds down the field 10 minutes at a time but either doesn't score or only kicks FGs, that's not very scary. If they bulldoze your D for 10 minutes at a time and always score, and half the time it's TDs, now you have something to worry about. |
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I hope we don't see the 10+1 option again; I hope we smack the crap out of the competition in the first 60 minutes.
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In essence, you are correct. But if your team scores quickly then your defense may be on the field longer. And that could mean your defense is very tire and unable to play good defense at the end of the game. That being said, I'm all for scoring as quickly and as much as possible most of the time.
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I have been wondering about Thornhill. Could it be that he's just a little gunshy considering he had a serious injury last year? I think he will come around and play better. |
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I just rewatched the Chargers game and I think that's it. He definitely didn't have a problem getting off the blocks, he was reading-reacting just fine, and he looked just as fast as ever, but he did seem a little gun-shy about lower body contact. He didn't seem to have much of an issue tackling though. A little off on his angles (I'm talking about a foot maybe a foot and a half so just barely), but that's probably more about lack of snaps and no preseason than his knee.
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There was also a non-called tripping penalty on Chris Jones IIRC. Could've been KPass. But Jones pancaked the Chargers OL who responded by reaching up and grabbing his leg and pulling on it. Without that, Jones (or whoever) definitely gets a sack.
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