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Results of the 4 plays so far:

Hurts run for 5 yards.
Hurts run for 27 yards.
Hurts pass to Harris for 11 yards.
Tua pass to Hurts for 7 yards.

Avg. 12.5 yards per snap.

Eh. Have you seen our regular offensive stats?

Tua - 14.31 yards per passing ATTEMPT
Tua - 20.0 yards per completion
Tua - 4.7 yards per carry (with sacks included)
The first 3 RB's off the bench are averaging a combined 5.99 yards per carry.

So, let's not just assume if we'd run the normal offense that we wouldn't have picked up just as many yards. Or more, since if Tua had completed two normal passes, the stats tell us he would have gotten 40 yards out of it.

See how fun stats are?

"If" he would have completed. "If" is a really big word.

No "ifs"...reality: the other 46 snaps that Tua took vs. Missouri, other than the "Jalen package"...completions, incompletions, handoffs, and sacks...we averaged 7.9 yards per SNAP.

Against Arkansas, we averaged 11.26 yards per SNAP, other than the Jalen package, with Tua.

Yeah, stats can be really fun when you just cherry pick the good plays and ignore the ones that have gotten bad results.

I would assume that you're astute enough to know that's not the point. The point is that some posters look at the packages as if they are a bad idea, when clearly they aren't. They have by any measure been successful. And the notion that they caused the offense to bog down is, well, just stupid.

This post was edited on 10/18/18 at 4:16 pm