The Importance of Explosiveness

[hskrfan4life]

Another article done by Hail Varisty.

Nothing is more demoralizing than giving up a 20-play, 80-yard, nine-minute drive. But unless your team is Navy, that doesn’t happen too often. Defensive coaches often teach their squads the concept of leverage — prevent the ball-carrier from getting the outside lane, steer him to the middle, make the tackle, and live to play another down. It is the bend-don’t-break style of defense, and it often works because if you give the offense enough opportunities, they might eventually make a drive-killing mistake, especially at the collegiate level. If you allow them 40 yards in one play, their likelihood of making a drive-killing mistake plummets.

Link to article here.

Also some good graphis in the article as well.

Seems that the two years we were in the CC game we had about a 7% for explosive plays percentage.

 

[Hunter94]

that is why we give the ball to our fastest RB's, most often.......more chances to get to the house in one play.

 

[Hoosker]

Hail Varsity always impresses me with their in-depth articles.

The graphs really help drive their point home.

I would have guessed our 2010 offense was more explosive than the 2012 unit, but that's not the case. Taylor's health was probably the deciding factor on that one.