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BOB STURM |
Published: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 10:13am
Sunday was another odd day at the office in the sense that they won and rolled up an above-average day as far as yardage is concerned, but they also used their punter as many times before halftime (6) as he had been used all year in any full game. Jones ended up punting 9 times to end 15 drives, with 2 others ending in interceptions (albeit one as a desperation hail mary) and only points in 3 others.
So, 368 yards is good, but it doesn't meet with the football premise that you need 7 points for every 100 yards you accumulate - which would have put them at a points expectancy number of roughly 26 - in a game where they scored 17.
It makes you wonder how Chip Kelly and other offensive minds are going to throw all of our numbers in the trash and make us recalculate what success means based on the number of drives and the number of snaps in a game being multiplied so that 368 yards doesn't mean near when it comes in 75-80 plays as it would if it was applied to 60-65 offensive plays which are numbers we are accustomed to.
When you look at the success rates of Yards Per Play, you quickly see that this was not very good on Sunday. In fact, since setting all sorts of high marks in the Denver game (54 plays, 522 yards, 9.67 yards per play), the Cowboys have come back to earth against the Commanders (50 plays, 213 yards, 4.26 ypp) and then the Eagles game (75 plays, 368 yards, 4.90 ypp). 6 yards per play is ideal and most teams would live with 5.5, but dropping below 5 yards a play in the last few weeks will not please the coaching staff after the show in Denver.
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Published: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 10:13am
Sunday was another odd day at the office in the sense that they won and rolled up an above-average day as far as yardage is concerned, but they also used their punter as many times before halftime (6) as he had been used all year in any full game. Jones ended up punting 9 times to end 15 drives, with 2 others ending in interceptions (albeit one as a desperation hail mary) and only points in 3 others.
So, 368 yards is good, but it doesn't meet with the football premise that you need 7 points for every 100 yards you accumulate - which would have put them at a points expectancy number of roughly 26 - in a game where they scored 17.
It makes you wonder how Chip Kelly and other offensive minds are going to throw all of our numbers in the trash and make us recalculate what success means based on the number of drives and the number of snaps in a game being multiplied so that 368 yards doesn't mean near when it comes in 75-80 plays as it would if it was applied to 60-65 offensive plays which are numbers we are accustomed to.
When you look at the success rates of Yards Per Play, you quickly see that this was not very good on Sunday. In fact, since setting all sorts of high marks in the Denver game (54 plays, 522 yards, 9.67 yards per play), the Cowboys have come back to earth against the Commanders (50 plays, 213 yards, 4.26 ypp) and then the Eagles game (75 plays, 368 yards, 4.90 ypp). 6 yards per play is ideal and most teams would live with 5.5, but dropping below 5 yards a play in the last few weeks will not please the coaching staff after the show in Denver.
Read the rest: http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/n...ng-Out-the-Red-Zo?blockID=953283&feedID=10194
