Playing with tempo will wear out the defense, can someone explain this to me please

Freeze has said he doesn’t think the tempo at this point really matters because of what you just said, the offense isn’t able to keep the defense off the field anyways.

Might as well run it. Thorne has shown flashes of being good running tempo.

Part of the thinking of running tempo is not allowing substitutions. At normal speed, the defense keeps switching guys in and out. With tempo, you run 11 guys in the ground

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Because I watched us play without tempo, run 3 and outs repeatedly and punt about a dozen times and that seemed to wear the defense out.

So if we run with tempo and actually get a first down.....wouldnt that give the defense more of a rest.

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The part in bold is key...

If we run tempo and don't get a first down, the defense receives basically no rest.

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Or if we run with tempo and dont get a first, we reduced the defense resting time by 40 seconds because we did not run slow, is that going to make a difference????

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It will make a difference over the entirety of the game, yes. The defense will be out on the field a lot more plays. And that means the opposing offense has that many more plays to score.

Freeze isn't running much tempo right now because he knows we suck on offense and there's no point in trying. His game plan since UGA has been to milk the clock.

Now that we're through the difficult part of our schedule and don't play any more high powered offenses I think you'll see us take a few more chances. Freeze said in his Monday PC he was going to be more involved this week.

Could we run Tempo? Yes.

Would it help us now? Not really.

Defense: If we had stud starters & good backups, we could run tempo. The Defense would need to get 3 & outs for the majority of the game. You can do that if you have interchangeable bodies. We don't yet.

Our defense is pretty stout but when we loose a member to injury you can tell that the backups are not as good as the starters or even that close in all positions.

Does Freeze want to run tempo? Oh boy he does. But he knows that we don't have the bodies on both sides of the ball to keep us in the games. Thus the ground and pound ball style control the clock is us right now. We don't have a thrower that can see the field/WRs who don't run the right route or QB who makes the right read down to a QB who doesn't even attempt the play that is called. We have a ton of issues to work out. But I believe the bubble gum & bailing wire work that this staff has done so far has been better than I thought we would be.