It's possible that the throw was late and the ball should have been caught. These 2 things aren't mutually exclusive.
Tried that explanation already didn’t stick...
It's possible that the throw was late and the ball should have been caught. These 2 things aren't mutually exclusive.
We're a pretty darned good football team at the peripheral stuff that affects game outcomes at the margins - turnovers and special teams - and no question being better than our competitors at those things is part of the Lovie philosophy (even if turnovers are always going to contain an element of luck).
Having said all of that, fundamentally football is a question of who can move the ball on who. If we can be an elite team in the TO/ST department we will get more bang for our buck in the total yardage battle than most, but that still fundamentally describes the state of play as talent and schemes match up.
We should have destroyed that Rutgers team. We could have. And had we done so that total yardage measure would look very different.
If we beat Purdue next week it will be because we put together a much more complete performance.
We're a pretty darned good football team at the peripheral stuff that affects game outcomes at the margins - turnovers and special teams - and no question being better than our competitors at those things is part of the Lovie philosophy (even if turnovers are always going to contain an element of luck).
Having said all of that, fundamentally football is a question of who can move the ball on who. If we can be an elite team in the TO/ST department we will get more bang for our buck in the total yardage battle than most, but that still fundamentally describes the state of play as talent and schemes match up.
We should have destroyed that Rutgers team. We could have. And had we done so that total yardage measure would look very different.
If we beat Purdue next week it will be because we put together a much more complete performance.
Look at who wins the TO battle and 90% of the time I'm guessing that team wins the game
Here's an interesting article on a similar vein (a little older, 2013 season).This raises an interesting question. Who wins a higher percentage of the time, the team that wins the turnover battle or the team that wins the total yardage battle?
Attempts to Google have been inconclusive. Anybody?
Obviously many many games have an even turnover battle, whereas many have an essentially-tied-but-not-actually-tied yardage battle, so it's not EXACTLY apples to apples, but I would still be interested to see.
This raises an interesting question. Who wins a higher percentage of the time, the team that wins the turnover battle or the team that wins the total yardage battle?
Attempts to Google have been inconclusive. Anybody?
Obviously many many games have an even turnover battle, whereas many have an essentially-tied-but-not-actually-tied yardage battle, so it's not EXACTLY apples to apples, but I would still be interested to see.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. I'd vote that it's also 9/10ths of football.R
Robert wrote that turnovers are football article a couple years ago.
Here's an interesting article on a similar vein (a little older, 2013 season).
https://www.footballstudyhall.com/2014/1/24/5337968/college-football-five-factors
Assuming that stats are similar for the timeframe between 2013 and now, the conclusions that the article comes up with seem to validate Lovie's plan of winning the field position and turnover battles, and limiting big plays.
It was his first game back and he had only played 1.5 to date and was late to the practice field. Tiiming is off clearly and he's tending to play iti safe - throw late, throw safe, run when in doubt. We also dropped 4 passes (one was a bad call) that could have yielded well over 100-150 extra yards to the pass side of the game.I finally got to watch the offense and defensive breakdowns....jeez I feel as if my opinion about the Rutgers performance has been flip flopped. All those holding penalties not called on Rutgers would have made a HUGE difference.
And seeing all the throws AJ DID NOT attempt, makes me more worried than I previously was....
Now I don't know what to think about the team...