Battle of the trenches

[teeray]

It would seem that the coaching staff which you so adamantly defend agreed with a sizable number of posters here in that two or three mistakes in a game don't determine the overall effectiveness of a gameplan, and it'd frankly be tough to find anyone dumb enough to believe that it does. Unless you believe that only applies to Cam of course.

A sound offensive approach isn't held back by a couple of errors. We had poor offensive showings both weeks, the difference is that the aggressive one netted us 23 points while the conservative one landed us 7.

If you have only 7 opportunities on offense, you have average starting field position of your own 20, and you are playing against a great defense you bet your ass a small handful of mistakes and turnovers or lost possessions on a punt, can effect you overall scoring.

We had nearly double the amount of possessions against Buffalo. We didn't play better on offense just because we scored 23 points sometimes with an extremely short field. And our defense didn't play that much worse because they gave up twice as many points.

More possessions = more total yardage and more points. And that goes for both teams. But that does not equal better strategy or effeciency