Stat + Pet Peeve

[Snaggletiger]

Carry On Johnson is averaging 103 yards per game.  No doubt if he stays healthy, he's the next 1,000 yard rusher, keeping the streak alive.  My gripe is quite trivial, but I've never understood the logic.

Sean White has 34 rushing attempts for 142 yards.  That's a little over 4 yards a carry and a pretty nice little weapon/wrinkle in your offense when the QB can occasionally take off.  But his actual net yardage is 57. Why?  Because they deduct the yardage for sacks. 

Okay, if Clifford Franklin lines up in the gun, takes the snap and tucks it like a Mildcat run, only goes 3 steps before a LB shoots the gap and gets him.  What is the result?  TFL (Tackle For Loss for the uninformed) for the defender and negative rushing yardage for the offense. 

If Clifford Franklin runs the same play, but this time immediately holds the ball like he's looking downfield to throw....LB plants him.  Result?  Sack for the defender and negative rushing yardage for the offense.

Clearly a pass play.  The line is pass blocking (Unless Jimbo Fisher studies old Auburn/Ole Miss footage sees you down field) and the defense gets credit for a sack because it was clearly a pass play.  But it comes off the rushing total? 

I am bewildered and bumfuzzled.

[jmar]

So what's your gripe pilgrim?

[Snaggletiger]

So what's your gripe pilgrim?

Well, obviously that they're not enforcing the halo rule on fair catches. Pay attention.

[GH2001]

Grab some supermarket boiled peanuts. You're not yourself when you're hungry.

[Snaggletiger]

Marsha Marsha Marsha

[GH2001]

Marsha Marsha Marsha

Sometimes good can be muddy. But a rusty can is ok if the time is right and things just aren't born of pure boredom. Like the appetizers for example. What a croc.

[djsimp]

Sometimes good can be muddy. But a rusty can is ok if the time is right and things just aren't born of pure boredom. Like the appetizers for example. What a croc.

Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get back on the express way?

[Buzz Killington]

What does any of this have to do with the price of tea in China?

[djsimp]

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

[The Six]

Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get back on the express way?

You see where it say Rib Tips? Well, fuck that. You don't wanna go that way.

[Buzz Killington]

Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get back on the express way?

Man, what do I look like?  Christopher Columbo?

[CCTAU]

Carry On Johnson is averaging 103 yards per game.  No doubt if he stays healthy, he's the next 1,000 yard rusher, keeping the streak alive.  My gripe is quite trivial, but I've never understood the logic.

Sean White has 34 rushing attempts for 142 yards.  That's a little over 4 yards a carry and a pretty nice little weapon/wrinkle in your offense when the QB can occasionally take off.  But his actual net yardage is 57. Why?  Because they deduct the yardage for sacks. 

Okay, if Clifford Franklin lines up in the gun, takes the snap and tucks it like a Mildcat run, only goes 3 steps before a LB shoots the gap and gets him.  What is the result?  TFL (Tackle For Loss for the uninformed) for the defender and negative rushing yardage for the offense. 

If Clifford Franklin runs the same play, but this time immediately holds the ball like he's looking downfield to throw....LB plants him.  Result?  Sack for the defender and negative rushing yardage for the offense.

Clearly a pass play.  The line is pass blocking (Unless Jimbo Fisher studies old Auburn/Ole Miss footage sees you down field) and the defense gets credit for a sack because it was clearly a pass play.  But it comes off the rushing total? 

I am bewildered and bumfuzzled.

It has been that way forever. He also loses yardage on a kneel down.

[jmar]

Methinks White has spiked three balls counting against his completion percentage.

So there's that too.

[WiregrassTiger]

Man, what do I look like?  Christopher Columbo?

Thank you, very much.