A Strategic Thought: Onsides

[ejthedj]

Against a team like Denver and with a defense like ours...

Why not try an onside on every kickoff? The first one can be a surprise, increasing our chances. The rest are not a surprise but they are about 26% successful, so we have a 1 in 4 chance to get the ball. That's much higher than the stop percentage.

Plus, your D ends up on the field less and knows that all they have to do is buckle down and get FGs...

Thoughts?

 

[djmajestik]

I thought possibly doing this once just to shake things up might have been a good idea. Especially with Manning seemingly moving the field at will. But we were able to dig ourselves out of a hole and actually were leading, so guess we didn't need it.

 

[pancakeman]

You'd have to figure out how much quicker the other team scores from the better field position when they get possession. If they score every time they have the ball, and they are scoring faster, they're going to have a larger number of drives and thus an even larger point total.

 

[xwalker]

Against a team like Denver and with a defense like ours...

Why not try an onside on every kickoff? The first one can be a surprise, increasing our chances. The rest are not a surprise but they are about 26% successful, so we have a 1 in 4 chance to get the ball. That's much higher than the stop percentage.

Plus, your D ends up on the field less and knows that all they have to do is buckle down and get FGs...

Thoughts?

A 26% success rate equals a 74% failure rate.

A surprise onside kick in the middle of the game is sometimes a good idea for the underdog team, but doing it repeatedly is a guarantee of failure (especially against a prolific offense like Denver's).

 

[ejthedj]

A 26% success rate equals a 74% failure rate.

A surprise onside kick in the middle of the game is sometimes a good idea for the underdog team, but doing it repeatedly is a guarantee of failure (especially against a prolific offense like Denver's).

We had a 90% failure this last game, so...

 

[CATCH17]

Because our offense was rolling so you have to believe at some point you can get a stop or a turnover.

We did that a couple times in the 2nd half and had a chance to win.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

So you miss the onside kick and give the Bronco's an even shorter field to work with? Yea.....no. This works in Madden but i'm not sure if it works in the actual NFL.

 

[ejthedj]

I would almost never reccommend this Madden strategy, but in case anyone didn't notice, that was a Madden game yesterday, so it's an interesting thought