Sentences with phrase «short yardage downs»

Not exact matches

S&P + in 2015 despite dreadful short yardage success (114th in power success rate) and leakiness (107th in stuff rate, 74th in passing downs success rate).

S&P + ranking has been dragged down by niggling issues and situational breakdowns: awful short yardage execution (101st in power success rate) and too many big plays on passing downs (107th in passing downs explosiveness).

Ellison has solid hands and is a check down / short yardage target on passing downs.

They killed FSU in short - yardage and held the Seminoles to 6 - for - 16 on third downs.

To do that with a thin offensive line and to convert on short - yardage third downs, UC planned to call for Kiel to run the ball out of a pass look.

This is an over-generalization, but you can boil a lot of a line's performance down to two key situations: short - yardage and passing - downs pass protection.

UMass was solid on standard downs last year (67th in Standard Downs S&P +), but that doesn't mean as much when you're miserable in short - yardage situations (126th in power success rate).

It's not for lack of trying, but they just don't win close games because short yardage, getting stops on third downs and coming up with big late - game turnovers just haven't been the team's forte in recent years.