SEA_Pat
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Thanks for the post, I was thinking of writing something similar during the game thread. This is the way BB ALWAYS plays it, and it's driven the board collectively nuts for years. I hate watching it, but I've come to understand that there must be a significantly higher percentage of victory this way, hence that's why we do it. Good that you brought up the Jordy Nelson play, that's indeed what can happen when we play it straight on.
My question though is "why don't we run the play clock down every single play when we do this?" I suppose one needs to keep the defense off of knowing the snap count if you run it down to 1 every play, but if you go somewhere between 1 to 5 seconds that would solve that problem. But knowing that we're just trading yards for time, I don't see why we don't max out the value of time we're burning.
My question though is "why don't we run the play clock down every single play when we do this?" I suppose one needs to keep the defense off of knowing the snap count if you run it down to 1 every play, but if you go somewhere between 1 to 5 seconds that would solve that problem. But knowing that we're just trading yards for time, I don't see why we don't max out the value of time we're burning.