Should Hawk’s O Prioritize 1st Downs over TDs this season?
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jamescasey1124
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That should always be the focus.
oldhawkfan
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Which is why Pete likes the run game...TOP.
Sports Hernia
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Agreed! Moving the chains is fundamental football and it’s something that gets lost a lot with this coaching staff.jamescasey1124":2w9s9wm3 said:
I feel like first downs are like a money ball situation of getting on base. You get more first downs and you'll more than likely get more points at the end of the game. I feel like if its an even better stat to play for than the turnover stat that Pete coaches so heavily for.
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oldhawkfan":24rawi16 said:
You know we were winning TOP be a wide margin first 8 games last year. You can win TOP and still throw the ball.
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John63":134xn0np said:
It's because we milk the play clock to 0:0.001 every play which is a tell to the defense go kill Russell.
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chris98251":gzv6814c said:
I don't understand why we do this all the time - even when behind. Trying to draw the opposition offside very rarely works for us as they seem to know we are going to snap the ball when it reaches 0.
It does seem that other teams vary the timing of the snapway more than we do.
Sorry - I know this is off topic.
3rd down efficiency is all too often dependent on 1st down efficiency. If you can reliably pick up 4 yds (on avg) on 1st down, 2d and 3rd down start getting a lot easier and have a larger playlist of calls.
Get a lot of 1-2 yd results on 1st down, you get more 2d and 3rd and long situations. Degree of difficulty rises quickly.
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Get a lot of 1-2 yd results on 1st down, you get more 2d and 3rd and long situations. Degree of difficulty rises quickly.
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I don't believe you value anything over TDs, with the possible exception of ball control on a short lead with the clock winding down. But how you get those TDs sure gets easier with a solid advance on 1st down. We were not good at that last year. We ran for 1 or 2, while our opposition ran for 5 or 6 when they had the ball. That was a real tell in how our game was going to play out. When your success DEPENDS on hitting the long ball you are very likely to fail more often than you win. That we pulled out 12 wins last season seems miraculous to me.
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Focus on first downs and the TDs will come....
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Appyhawk":2ttt961f said:
Because it was miraculous. Pats, Cowboys, Vikings were all games that easily could have gone the other way if they executed just one last play. 9-7 wasn't far off.
