Sentences with phrase «short yardage plays»
If either team is up by exactly two possessions, scoring tends to go up as defenses allow short yardage plays in exchange for time off the clock.
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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).
In the last four years, I have never seen the Chargers try this play in short yardage jumbo formations.
One of the best plays there is for short yardage is to bring in your jumbo pack and go play action with the tight end blocking down and releasing as the entire defense converges to stop Gordon.
Maybe Whiz can figure out how to use a play that always works against the Chargers in short yardage: The play action fake to Gordon, with a pass in the flat to the left side tight end.
«When Coach first asked me if I'd play fullback in short - yardage situations, I laughed,» he says.
In fact, after the Sooners» coaches studied all their game film of 1967, Fairbanks said that «our average gain on all plays going over Kalsu, including short yardage and goal line plays, is 6.2 net yards rushing... This is what we coaches grade as... near perfection.»
Tech ranked 22nd in Adj. Line Yards last year and thrived at both converting short yardage and avoiding negative plays.
As he maintains, the Buckeyes did have some success running the ball on the Spartans with power runs behind some double TE formations in short - yardage scenarios, and on a play where they caught the Spartans in a stunt.
Smith also made a big tackle on special teams, and stoned big Bo Scarbrough on a short yardage third down pass play.
He is built like a fire hydrant, tough to tackle, and uses his stout frame to squeeze out extra yards and running plays; especially short yardage.
Shotgun is pass - heavy, while Goal Line relies a lot on short - yardage running plays.
With its own rules and easy controls to pick up, it put more focus on trying to execute a piledriver on an opposing QB than to execute a short - yardage play.