Haimerej
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Limiting your opponent's opportunities to score is a good gameplan, but it's meaningless if the defense doesn't actually keep them from scoring.
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Limiting your opponent's opportunities to score is a good gameplan, but it's meaningless if the defense doesn't actually keep them from scoring.
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But it limits their chances.
Haimerej
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Yes. Limiting chances does, indeed, limit chances. I've heard scoring touchdowns puts points on the board as well.
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Lockett was running free too much... he was being covered by Woods at one point. That should never happen.
And yes— Wilson was throwing nice passes all nite long
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TOP is not a good indicator and neither is rushing for 100 yards..... they just aren't
The correlation to winning is like 50% if you win those
The correlation to winning if you pass more efficiently is around 80%
Turnovers is the second best
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I didn't say ToP is the biggest factor. I just said keeping someone like Wilson off the field longer is a good thing, because he doesn't have as much time to get hot.
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..that's called good defense, they are hard to score on. Luckily we have offenses coming together.
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Personal attacks are always a good strategy when you have no clue what you're talking about, and when you know nothing about the person you're attacking.
Not to mention that running has low correlation to TOP as well. The highest correlations for TOP are using the play clock, completion percentage and third-down conversions. Rushing attempts and even rushing success correlate much less with TOP.
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The problem with TOP is you used to be able to use that as a predictor of the outcome. You could look at TOP and call the winner without seeing the score and you could look at the team with the most passing yards and predict the loser. Back when TOP was the battle cry, the top passing teams had the worst records and seldom made the playoffs.
In order for a team to capitalize on TOP, they must have an excellent scoring defense. Yards don't matter, all about the Points Off Possessions and forcing FG's instead of TD's. And TOP teams usually play the field position game better.
The Cowboys won TOP against SEA because they stopped their run game and were able to exploit their own. So what happens with the TOP team is that they've worn the other team's D down by the 4Q. That's how we used to play it in the 90's and that's how we played it against SEA, except it was the D that almost screwed the pooch, the O did their job this time.
In order for a team to capitalize on TOP, they must have an excellent scoring defense. Yards don't matter, all about the Points Off Possessions and forcing FG's instead of TD's. And TOP teams usually play the field position game better.
The Cowboys won TOP against SEA because they stopped their run game and were able to exploit their own. So what happens with the TOP team is that they've worn the other team's D down by the 4Q. That's how we used to play it in the 90's and that's how we played it against SEA, except it was the D that almost screwed the pooch, the O did their job this time.
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We agree that TOP is a product of the first downs, correct?
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Yeah, I'm not really that impressed with Adam's theory on that one.
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No doubt. That’s all they could pretty much do is rely on an absolute perfect pass and perfect catch 2-3 times.
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so true right here. we need TD's not FGs
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It's really their most effective weapon.Zeke is an extremely difficult back to deal with late in games. He really wants to put people away with his physicality. In many ways he is like Marshawn Lynch, a little better looking though.
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It really isn't up to you whether you decide to trust facts or not
They speak for themselves
In DAL's last 85 games the team that passed more efficiently won 77 times and the other 8 were decided in the last few minutes
You can't come close to that with Rushing Yds, Rushing Atts, TOP or any other stat
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I disagree. You always want to score TDs, but TOP is very important too. You wear down the opposing defense and keep the ball away from their offense. It frustrates the opposition and most importantly, they can’t score without the ball (other than defensive scores, obviously).
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You also can’t look at single stats in a vacuum. A great running game generally leads to a much easier time throwing the ball. Balanced offenses are and have always been the best way to control games.
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This! ^^^^