Avoiding interceptions crucial for success

[phinphever]

Chad Pennington is our guy to lead this team. His smart play is the secret to our success this year. His lousy play in the playoff game sealed our loss. But the lack of pass protection was a lot of the problem. Give him more time to throw and we will have even more success.

This article talks about the importance of not throwing int's. Before you say it-thanks for the obvious-duh. Not the point. Read

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/01/08/chff/index.html

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"The most interesting part of the interception ladder is not just that INTs are costly. Sure, chronicling the actual percentages is nice, but we all know that turnovers cost teams. The most interesting part is that throwing INTs -- or, more specifically, not throwing INTs -- is actually more important than throwing touchdowns in the playoffs."

• Teams that toss more touchdowns than their opponents are 207-62 (.770).
• Teams that toss fewer interceptions than their opponents are 258-56 (.822).


Interesting hmmm?

What is your opinion?

 

[3rdandinches]

I think this is stating the obvious, our season also showed this theory. As long as we can continue to limit our turnovers we will always be in games thus allowing our chances of winning them to be greater.

Next season will prove this again, we play a supposed harder schedule and while we will improve our overall talent as along as we keep the turnovers down we will once again be fighting for a division championship. We may not finish 11-5 but we won't be 500 or less team because of how we take care of the ball.