Post by williamtsherman on Mar 20, 2018 18:36:52 GMT -6
I proposed and debated this point on this forum some time ago and here is a study proving what I had already figured out when I was a kid. Running the football, chewing up clock and racking up time of possession do NOT help your defense in any measurable way. "Rested" defenses do not stop the opponent any better than "tired" defenses.
But yet you hear announcers and everyone repeating this over and over. You want to wear the other team's defense down. You want to rest your defense. It's clearly the conventional wisdom....but it's a crock of shit. Yes, of course you want first downs....BECAUSE THEY LEAD TO SCORING POINTS, not because it rests your defense.
I remember asking my dad when I was a kid "But if your defense is on the field getting tired, isn't the other teams offense getting tired too?"
