Fumbling

[cyptomcat]

A lot of us are worried about fumbling in our new offense. I looked up how PJ fared at Navy.

Fumbles at Navy
2002: lost 25 (PJ's initial season)
2007: fumbled 21 lost 12 (GT fumbled 27 lost 12)

Hopefully, by now PJ and his staff is much more experienced in installing his rushing offense and can limit fumbles. But, at least, the Navy records are not completely disastrous.

 

[beej67]

Fumbles at Navy
2002: lost 25 (PJ's initial season)
2007: fumbled 21 lost 12 (GT fumbled 27 lost 12)

Yeah, but how many picks did we throw, and how many times did we punt?

 

[Essobee]

A lot of us are worried about fumbling in our new offense. I looked up how PJ fared at Navy.

Fumbles at Navy
2002: lost 25 (PJ's initial season)
2007: fumbled 21 lost 12 (GT fumbled 27 lost 12)

Hopefully, by now PJ and his staff is much more experienced in installing his rushing offense and can limit fumbles. But, at least, the Navy records are not completely disastrous.

How many of our 2007 fumbles were by Nesbitt?

 

[GoldenTornado]

Yeah, but how many picks did we throw, and how many times did we punt?

The last five years Navy averaged 19.8 turnovers, and Tech averaged 24.0.

We punted exactly twice as often as Navy -- 5.8 times per game, vice 2.9. Navy had the fewest punts in the NCAA the last five years, by a pretty significant margin.

They did fumble more than we did, but then they also ran the ball a lot more. But we threw a LOT more intercetpions.

 

[cyptomcat]

My worry was about installing PJ's offense, not stats on how it will do after it's installed. The first year PJ came to Navy, they lost 25 fumbles. So we might be looking at a number like that as well, but I am hoping that PJ can keep it under wraps somehow.

 

[gth816f]

We punted exactly twice as often as Navy -- 5.8 times per game, vice 2.9. Navy had the fewest punts in the NCAA the last five years, by a pretty significant margin.

A better stat would be number of punts per possession. The number of punts per game is kind of meaningless when you don't know how many times each team had the ball.

 

[GTMensLax&SoccerD1Soon!]

Maybe our offense should just practice recovering fumbles...

 

[ncjacket]

My worry was about installing PJ's offense, not stats on how it will do after it's installed. The first year PJ came to Navy, they lost 25 fumbles. So we might be looking at a number like that as well, but I am hoping that PJ can keep it under wraps somehow.

No, PJ's first year at Navy should be thrown out of any conversation. He took over a team that won a total of 1 game in the previous 2 years. He was lucky they could handle the snap, much less his offense.

 

[aeromech]

No, PJ's first year at Navy should be thrown out of any conversation. He took over a team that won a total of 1 game in the previous 2 years. He was lucky they could handle the snap, much less his offense.

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