JLC Rant/Rip on Playcalling

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I'd say his logic behind "40 is the magic number " is faulty. The reason we didn't get to 40 was because they were loaded up for our short game so we basically produced nothing and thus had less offensive plays. The 40 rushes is ideal when taken in context as a function of our total plays. We'd have ended up with 40 if we would have stretched the field a bit I think and kept the ball more.

Totally agree. When he said 40, I stopped reading the article.

The number of rushes, as with the number of pass attempts, have to be taken into consideration.