Smasharoo wrote:
No. I'm saying that the average time per snap during a 2 minute drill is not 22 seconds.
For a running play, from snap to snap....it is! I didn't get my data from wiki, incidentally, but that is a weird coincidence.
For a running play, from snap to snap....it is! I didn't get my data from wiki, incidentally, but that is a weird coincidence.
Ok. That is a strange coincidence. I did a quick google and saw something mentioning 22 seconds and found the wiki for hurry up offense (which includes a section on 2 minute drills). Where did you get your data from then?
I still stand by the position that time clearly wasn't the factor, so obsessing over average times in the past doesn't tell us anything about the thought process involved. Carroll didn't call a pass play because he didn't think he could run 3 run plays in the time he had. He almost certainly called a pass play to keep the offense honest and force them to at least spend some effort against passes, so as to make future run plays more likely to succeed. And I actually don't disagree with the strategy at all. Going with a pass play probably was the correct call. But, as I've said repeatedly, the pass play he chose was the wrong one. Heck. Even ignoring the whole bit about high risk due to where the ball is being thrown, that's a bad route to run if your intention is to spread out the defense to make runs easier. That also would be better accomplished with out routes rather than in routes.
It was just a really bad play call. Indefensible really. Your team benefited from it. Maybe they would have held them anyway. Maybe Lynch would have fumbled. There's no way to know what might have happened otherwise. No one's saying the Patriots only won because Carroll screwed up, if that's what's getting your hackles up. At least, I'm not. All I'm saying is that that was a really bad play call.
Edited, Feb 6th 2015 4:49pm by gbaji