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Originally Posted by DYoungJelly
Game situation is huge in play calling and qb play.
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Game situations are indeed an aspect of play calling. Another equally if not more important aspect is obviously the playcaller's intent.
If playcalling was merely a product of game situation then there wouldn't but differences in expected pass/run ratio through the league.
I posted these earlier:
https://www.profootballfocus.com/blo...-play-calling/
^^Great article on situational playcalling (from 2013) it will be interesting if/when they come out with the numbers from last year.
Another article (posted earlier) that speaks specifically to playcaller (jay) choice:
Need to Know: Should the Redskins have run more on third and short? | Rich Tandler's Real Redskins
"Looking at one or two yards to go, we see the Redskins running less often than the league as a whole. The NFL ran 57 percent of the time on third and short while Washington ran just 47 percent in those situations.
They were not very successful when they ran the ball. They ran 20 times on third and one or two and converted 12 times, a conversion rate of 60 percent. The league as a whole converts 68 percent of the time.
But, then again, they weren’t that good passing the ball with a yard or two to go. They converted 11 of 23 times, 48 percent. The league was successful passing on third and short 57 percent of the time.
So, perhaps they should have run the ball more on third and short give that they were more successful doing that. But the thing that strikes me here is that we constantly heard from Jay Gruden, Sean McVay, and others was that the Redskins poor third-down conversion rate was due to them always being in third and long. But they couldn’t get it done in the situations where they did find themselves in third and short, so it really didn’t make that much difference."
-Rich Tandler