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re: Time Of Possession Is The Most Overrated Statistic In Football
Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:51 pm to FishFearMe
Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:51 pm to FishFearMe
quote:Nice practice post ahead of a season full of Chavis choke-jobs.
Time Of Posession Is The Most Overrated Statistic In Football
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:52 pm to UsingUpAllTheLetters
#ChavisEffect
Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:55 pm to NYCAuburn
Time of possession is an outcome, not a control.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:59 pm to FishFearMe
Time of Possession is very important in some situations, such as those where your own defense is reeling and you'd like to keep them off the field for a while.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:07 pm to Nguyening
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Time of possession is an outcome, not a control.
Okay. We get it. You don't understand football.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:09 pm to FishFearMe
Tell that to anybody who's ever actually played football on the defensive side of the ball. TOP absolutely matters, it's critical.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:11 pm to LSU1NSEC
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No. It's not even close to the most overrated statistic in football.
Exactly, that distinction goes to unadjusted passing defense numbers which are supplied without any other defensive metrics.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:18 pm to rmnldr
Team A. scores 6 touchdowns and takes an average of 2 minutes to drive the field each time; every other possession results in no points and lasts less than a minute
Team B scores 15 points, all on field goals resulting in long sustained drives averaging 6 minutes each, their remaining drives end scoreless but only after a minimum of 5 minutes of slowly moving the ball.
One team completely dominated TOP, the other team completely dominated the game.
Team B scores 15 points, all on field goals resulting in long sustained drives averaging 6 minutes each, their remaining drives end scoreless but only after a minimum of 5 minutes of slowly moving the ball.
One team completely dominated TOP, the other team completely dominated the game.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:20 pm to Old Sarge
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Team A. scores 6 touchdowns and takes an average of 2 minutes to drive the field each time; every other possession results in no points and lasts less than a minute
Team B scores 15 points, all on field goals resulting in long sustained drives averaging 6 minutes each, their remaining drives end scoreless but only after a minimum of 5 minutes of slowly moving the ball.
One team completely dominated TOP, the other team completely dominated the game.
Yep. If you pick two atypical scenarios, that would be how it plays out.
Also, without knowing that the other teams did, you can't say anyone dominated or didn't dominate the game.This post was edited on 7/28/15 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:23 pm to Old Sarge
Because those random scenarios correlate to any football game...
Time of Possession goes hand and hand with field position. If you control TOP, you most likely control field position.
Aggies wouldn't understand that though, considering your offense is built around a perimeter air raid passing attack which any defense with talent will eat up.
Time of Possession goes hand and hand with field position. If you control TOP, you most likely control field position.
Aggies wouldn't understand that though, considering your offense is built around a perimeter air raid passing attack which any defense with talent will eat up.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:24 pm to NYCAuburn
I don't know as I don't have the "want to" to go look up all the history of Pro style offenses vs the gimmick high school offenses but I do know that it's harder to score when the other team has the ball.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:11 pm to Grovewater
I played on defense and say bs.
Alabama is the only top 20 TOP team that made the playoff at number 20 TOP.
Alabama is the only top 20 TOP team that made the playoff at number 20 TOP.
This post was edited on 7/28/15 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:12 pm to FishFearMe
quote:Couple that with a strong defense and you win championships.
Win the turnover ratio and consistently score TD's in the red zone and you will win a lot of games.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:16 pm to FishFearMe
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:25 pm to BluegrassBelle
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NONE of the top 30 TOP teams made the playoff.
Alabama is listed at 20.
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Ohio St was 25
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:30 pm to FishFearMe
As a Gator fan I know.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:36 pm to FishFearMe
quote:Since you played defense....How did you feel emotionally and physically when a team kept you on the field for long sustained drives multiple times during the game? Did you team have enough stamina to counter a balanced offensive attack that ate up the clock? Did your team have enough depth to consistantly defend in those drives?
I played on defense and say bs. Alabama is the only top 20 TOP team that made the playoff at number 20 TOP.
Like someone posted earlier, TOP is important mentally and psychologically to a defensive unit and by the end of the 3rd qtr on into the 4th qtr many teams just give up on defense. I've seen it dozens of times since Nick Saban has been at Bama. I've sat in the stands and watched our offense drag out an offensive drive so long that it literally broke the oponents will.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:53 pm to FishFearMe
The OP and all of his Aggy ilk have been shite on in this thread.
You may want to consider a RA for deletion at this point.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 3:01 pm to FishFearMe
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This is to debunk the many posts stating that winning TOP is critical for winning games
It is when you run an offense that actually transitions in to the NFL
Posted on 7/28/15 at 3:09 pm to FishFearMe
You have to have the ball to score and defenses wear out quickly !
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