The teams that run full speed for entire games do so because they’re rarely beating teams by multiple scores, thus not trying to take time off the clock. Nobody keeps running at lightning speed when they’re up by 24. This should be common sense.
Cool. What about the countless other examples who run tempo? I
I think you’re mistaking me critiquing your argument with critiquing your methodology. Your methodology isn’t sound because you’re using Total Defense as the metric
The teams that run the most plays aren’t necessarily going faster than everyone. They just tend to be teams that A) don’t often have big leads and B) aren’t explosive on offense so they run a ton of 7 yard plays. Those teams aren’t mediocre because they run a fast offense. They’re mediocre because they don’t have talent and the only way to be competitive is to run a fast offense.
South Carolina just scored again. They only scored 63 points. Sometimes going in hyper speed is detrimental.
None of this is relevant to my point about total defense not being a good metric lol. Pointing out individual performances doesn’t prove that Tennessee wasn’t an above average to good defense either. We’re not even having close to the same conversation.
I don't think anyone is saying to purposely slow down to protect their defenses. I think the case is trying to be made that going fast can be a detriment to your defense in a game. If your defense was just on the field for 5 minutes, you get the ball back and then go 3 and out in 45 seconds and the defense has to come right back out, it starts to add up. I'm sure there is some sort of statistical correlation that would back this up, I'm honestly just to lazy to look it up lol. Going up tempo can be a huge benefit when it is successful but if it's not working, you are definitely putting your defense in a spot to be less successful.
I think that’s more of a “going three and out” problem than and “uptempo” problem. If you’re going three and out, the defense is going to be stressed no matter what. The extra few seconds you might save by going slower isn’t really making much of a difference. Just look at our offense last year. Gattis was slow as ****. It didn’t really help our defense that his three and out took 1 minute instead of 30 seconds.
Doesn’t think he knows everything
SMU (Scoring Defense #119)
Was anyone ever suggesting that we go full time no huddle?
When spread offense first started to pick up speed and more ppl adopted, a really good coach I know said regarding spread "you either win by alot or lose by a lot". While that's not necessarily true today, the underlying reason behind that comment used to be, and is now addressed by tempo. Once teams get into control, slow down and control the game.
