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[QUOTE="OrangeTown, post: 351640, member: 942"]
I don't recall saying anything about USC not being that great at converting first downs, but I do often have a bad memory and say dumb things (obviously).
 
The only thing I mentioned was that yards per play is not always a great indicator of how to measure how much may be gained on the next couple plays. It can be, but it should be used with other information. That's all I was getting at.
 
You take things too literally. Of course if most of their offense returns from a great offense last year, I do care about that. I also care about how much we improved. But in making a split second determination regarding a 4th down play, I'm more interested in how much more likely we are to get 2 yards in a given play, and most importantly, how well we are playing against them at that specific moment in time.
 
I embrace stats, I just embrace other information with them. It just takes a while to get you to move from the all or nothing stats mentality to the more dummy-friendly "teams with lots of first downs are good at getting first downs", but we finally got there.  As a dummy myself, I thank you.
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