Comments on: Spurrier wants balance: Is he asking the right questions? Are his critics? http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/spurrier-wants-balance-is-he-asking-the-right-questions-are-his-critics Analysis and strategy by Chris. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Spurrier wants balance | Smart Football « Voetbal Ranten http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/spurrier-wants-balance-is-he-asking-the-right-questions-are-his-critics/comment-page-1#comment-601 Spurrier wants balance | Smart Football « Voetbal Ranten Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:56:10 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=366#comment-601 [...] Spurrier wants balance: Is he asking the right questions? Are his critics? | Smart Football Blogged with the Flock Browser [...] [...] Spurrier wants balance: Is he asking the right questions? Are his critics? | Smart Football Blogged with the Flock Browser [...]

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]]> By: Tom http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/spurrier-wants-balance-is-he-asking-the-right-questions-are-his-critics/comment-page-1#comment-595 Tom Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:14:05 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=366#comment-595 I'm impressed with all the eclectic methods you have for analyzing football and the different metrics you use. I have a question: is there any statistical evidence linking success in the running/passing game to quarters? Obviously, as the game wears on the defense gets more and more tired (the offense does too, but since they know where they're going and the defense is forced to react to that, I'd assume fatigue is a bit harder on defenses.) So, statistically, is there any merit to "breaking down the defense" early in the game with a predominantly running attack then shifting the balance to a pass-heavy attack later in the game? Or vice-versa? I’m impressed with all the eclectic methods you have for analyzing football and the different metrics you use.

I have a question: is there any statistical evidence linking success in the running/passing game to quarters? Obviously, as the game wears on the defense gets more and more tired (the offense does too, but since they know where they’re going and the defense is forced to react to that, I’d assume fatigue is a bit harder on defenses.)

So, statistically, is there any merit to “breaking down the defense” early in the game with a predominantly running attack then shifting the balance to a pass-heavy attack later in the game? Or vice-versa?

]]> By: Matt Zemek http://smartfootball.com/uncategorized/spurrier-wants-balance-is-he-asking-the-right-questions-are-his-critics/comment-page-1#comment-573 Matt Zemek Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:53:31 +0000 http://smartfootball.com/?p=366#comment-573 I strongly believe in first-down passing, but with that said, I think Spurrier is being too impatient here; his impatience with a paucity of passing is legendary, but he doesn't yet have a signal caller who has blossomed into full flower. I love it when Spurrier pitches it around the ballpark, but as much as it pains me to say so, he was wise, on the road, to entrust this game to his defense and keep Garcia under wraps. If he had a half-decent kicker (and holder), the Gamecocks might not have been sweating bullets in the final minutes. Spurrier shouldn't be ridiculed for being too conservative; it's his development of QBs, as you've noted, that should be the major issue. (The inherent instincts and football IQ levels of his quarterbacks certainly plays into that. As a Chris Fowler-like follower of professional tennis in addition to college football, Blake Mitchell was the Svetlana Kuznetsova of college quarterbacks during his stay in Columbia.) I strongly believe in first-down passing, but with that said, I think Spurrier is being too impatient here; his impatience with a paucity of passing is legendary, but he doesn’t yet have a signal caller who has blossomed into full flower. I love it when Spurrier pitches it around the ballpark, but as much as it pains me to say so, he was wise, on the road, to entrust this game to his defense and keep Garcia under wraps. If he had a half-decent kicker (and holder), the Gamecocks might not have been sweating bullets in the final minutes. Spurrier shouldn’t be ridiculed for being too conservative; it’s his development of QBs, as you’ve noted, that should be the major issue. (The inherent instincts and football IQ levels of his quarterbacks certainly plays into that. As a Chris Fowler-like follower of professional tennis in addition to college football, Blake Mitchell was the Svetlana Kuznetsova of college quarterbacks during his stay in Columbia.)

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