Miami Dolphins Have the 3rd-Most Imbalanced Offense in the League
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The team is averaging 4.1 yards per carry, which is the league average.
There is no more inability to run the ball for this team than there is for the average team in the league.
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Most definitely.
hoops
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This guy is even trying to sell me Miami can run the ball...
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And as usual, you try to sell something based on your self-proclaimed "expertise," that's controverted by the objective evidence.
"Don't trust the objective data; trust me, the almighty 'hooshoops,' a guy nobody knows on a message board."
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your telling me we need to keep running the ball? our backs get tackled in the backfield a good bit of the time, even sometimes before they even have the ball completely in their hands... but keep running it anyway to narrow the gap?
our running attack is abysmal. we have no business running the ball the way our OL blocks. no busines..
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On the flip side, I think it's worth pointing out that there are times to abandon the run. Such as when your team is rushing for under 1 YPC and the opposing defense is showing 8 or even 9 in the box. Carolina was doing that on Sunday. That was the appropriate time to get away from the run and take deep shots.
However, we have had games in the past where the team was rushing the ball very effectively and Mike Sherman simply stopped rushing the football. That is a huge, huge problem.
nyashfan
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Of course the rushing attempt differential is highly correlated to winning percentage. But that relationship is not causative. When you are a good team that's blowing out the other team by the 3rd quarter you are going to increase your number of rushing attempts. It is a riskless strategy. Conversely, when you are way behind by the 3rd quarter you are compelled to pass it all of the time.
It is a testament to the Dolphins' resiliency that their imbalance is not due to their inability to keep the game close. It is due to the fact that their OL and RB's are subpar.
I think you'll also find that winning percentage is anti-correlated to one's passing yardage allowed. It doesn't mean that that team's passing defense is worse; rather it simply means that the opponent is compiling garbage time passing yards due to the state of the score.
It is a testament to the Dolphins' resiliency that their imbalance is not due to their inability to keep the game close. It is due to the fact that their OL and RB's are subpar.
I think you'll also find that winning percentage is anti-correlated to one's passing yardage allowed. It doesn't mean that that team's passing defense is worse; rather it simply means that the opponent is compiling garbage time passing yards due to the state of the score.
hoops
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That 4.1 ypc is about as useful as that thread that linked the tannehill doesn't throw with anticipation in the middle of the field garbage I read...
You don't have a like league high red zone offense if the qb doesn't throw with anticipation...and that seed down the middle to Mathews that he dropped when he hit the ground was the definition of anticipation and throwing the ball where a guy was going not where he was...
Telling me this team can run the ball consistently is laughable....flat out bs...outside of the first half vs cinci where we used an extra OT in yeatman which I called for 3 weeks prior our run game has been mostly nonexistent...
Hell tannehill could be our leading rusher in many of these games...
You don't have a like league high red zone offense if the qb doesn't throw with anticipation...and that seed down the middle to Mathews that he dropped when he hit the ground was the definition of anticipation and throwing the ball where a guy was going not where he was...
Telling me this team can run the ball consistently is laughable....flat out bs...outside of the first half vs cinci where we used an extra OT in yeatman which I called for 3 weeks prior our run game has been mostly nonexistent...
Hell tannehill could be our leading rusher in many of these games...
I've been banging this drum for the better part of the season.
The evidence is overwhelming.
The evidence is overwhelming.
One would think; however, as I said earlier in the thread, first half rushing attempt differential is also correlated with wins, when the rationale you expounded above doesn't apply.
I'm open to any objective data that support that perspective.
Do you have any, or are you asking people to trust your subjective impressions alone, even though they're controverted by the objective data?
nyashfan
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That's fair. I would expect in the first half that those teams rushing it more are doing so because they are having success. It also limits the number of opponents' possessions and leads to fewer offensive turnovers.
I think the Dolphins philosophically would like to run it more. I think they also realize their limitations.
I think the Dolphins philosophically would like to run it more. I think they also realize their limitations.
What the data indicate, however, is that it's the difference in rushing attempts, per se, that's strongly correlated with winning, not the difference in rushing success.
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I agree with all this. We need balance. I don't care what some people will say, balance is important. There is a reason the need of a running game IN GB was STRESSED and ADDRESSED this offseason.
So if you rush the ball 30 times for 20 yards, this is strongly correclated with winning, as opposed to rushing the ball 20 times for 120 yards? Doubtful.