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<blockquote data-quote="GTRX7" data-source="post: 179485" data-attributes="member: 1045"><p>I hope we have less than 10 passing attempts. Iv20gt, I know this is a crusade for you and something you bring up with extreme regularity, but I just don't agree with you. I have posted statistics before on this. If you look at GTs biggest wins since PJ has been here, the biggest wins virtually all involve us attempting 10 or fewer passes. Now, I grant you that we tend to have more pass attempts when the rush is not working, which goes to your argument, but it is very notable that the opposite is not true. We have very few major wins where we even attempted 10 or more passes. We are simply best when we are running effectively and nothing shows that lots of passing attempts necessarily help us do that or that lots of success in the passing game correlates with big victories at GT. We attempted 24 passes last week, and I thought that was way too many.</p><p></p><p>The UGA and FSU games last year are interesting studies. Last year, we went 6 for 14 passing in the first half against UGA and scored 7 points. In the second half, we attempted only 2 passes, and scored 17 points. FSU was the reverse. We scored 21 points in the first half while only throwing a single pass (with 2 more pass attempts coming at the end of the half in the 1-minute drill). In the second half, we went 6 for 11 and scored only 14 pts, including a costly pick.</p><p></p><p>Now, if your argument is that the coaching staff should just make sure the team is one of the best rushing offenses <u>and</u> passing offenses in the nation, sure, I agree. However, I also think that is unrealistic and believe that the effort/practice time it would take to make us significantly better in passing would not be worth the trade-off of less effort/practice time focused on our bread and butter run offense.</p><p></p><p>I just see zero evidence that passing for the sake of passing helps us win. Running our base offense and making our blocking assignments is what we need to focus on most.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTRX7, post: 179485, member: 1045"] I hope we have less than 10 passing attempts. Iv20gt, I know this is a crusade for you and something you bring up with extreme regularity, but I just don't agree with you. I have posted statistics before on this. If you look at GTs biggest wins since PJ has been here, the biggest wins virtually all involve us attempting 10 or fewer passes. Now, I grant you that we tend to have more pass attempts when the rush is not working, which goes to your argument, but it is very notable that the opposite is not true. We have very few major wins where we even attempted 10 or more passes. We are simply best when we are running effectively and nothing shows that lots of passing attempts necessarily help us do that or that lots of success in the passing game correlates with big victories at GT. We attempted 24 passes last week, and I thought that was way too many. The UGA and FSU games last year are interesting studies. Last year, we went 6 for 14 passing in the first half against UGA and scored 7 points. In the second half, we attempted only 2 passes, and scored 17 points. FSU was the reverse. We scored 21 points in the first half while only throwing a single pass (with 2 more pass attempts coming at the end of the half in the 1-minute drill). In the second half, we went 6 for 11 and scored only 14 pts, including a costly pick. Now, if your argument is that the coaching staff should just make sure the team is one of the best rushing offenses [U]and[/U] passing offenses in the nation, sure, I agree. However, I also think that is unrealistic and believe that the effort/practice time it would take to make us significantly better in passing would not be worth the trade-off of less effort/practice time focused on our bread and butter run offense. I just see zero evidence that passing for the sake of passing helps us win. Running our base offense and making our blocking assignments is what we need to focus on most. [/QUOTE]
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