[stupac2]

And contrary to some of the narrative here, stopping the run was something we did not do very well.

I admittedly wasn't watching the push that they got, but I think we actually did stop the run pretty well. I just went through the play-by-play and charted every run by a running back (so no scrables/sacks) and they got 4.97 yards/carry. That's not really what you want to see, bad news for us! Except that, as we all know, the vast majority of it came on one drive. Their median run was for 2 yards. They had more runs for 2 or fewer yards than 3+, and keep in mind that a 3-yard run is usually a bad play*. If you take out that one TD drive they averaged 2.9 ypc.

So, what to make of that? Clearly our defense can break down and give up some long runs, but it only happened on one drive and on the other 24 carries they actually performed quite well.



*The way you should actually do this is by charting if a play was successful or not, based on down/distance and how much it gained (ie a 3-yard run on 3rd and 2 is a good play, on 3rd and 5 not so much), but I don't have time for that.

[stupac2]

And contrary to some of the narrative here, stopping the run was something we did not do very well.

I admittedly wasn't watching the push that they got, but I think we actually did stop the run pretty well. I just went through the play-by-play and charted every run by a running back (so no scrables/sacks) and they got 4.97 yards/carry. That's not really what you want to see, bad news for us! Except that, as we all know, the vast majority of it came on one drive. Their median run was for 2 yards. They had more runs for 2 or fewer yards than 3+, and keep in mind that a 3-yard run is usually a bad play*. If you take out that one TD drive they averaged 2.9 ypc.

So, what to make of that? Clearly our defense can break down and give up some long runs, but it only happened on one drive and on the other 24 carries they actually performed quite well.



*The way you should actually do this is by charting if a play was successful or not, based on down/distance and how much it gained (ie a 3-yard run on 3rd and 2 is a good play, on 3rd and 5 not so much), but I don't have time for that.